First Homework in End term

Briefly discuss the following in 3-5 sentences ONLY. (20 points)

1. Differentiate weather from climate.

- Weather refers to short term atmospheric conditions while climate is the weather of a specific
region averaged over a long period of
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2. What are the factors that influence climate?
-Elevation or Altitude effect climate. 
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3. How does climate affect the nature and location of biomes?
_- Because climate determines plant growth, it also influences the number and variety of other
organisms in a terrestrial
biome._________________________________________________________________________
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4. How have we affected the world’s terrestrial ecosystems?

_- Humans impact the physical environment in many ways like overpopulation, pollution,
burning fossil fuels, and
deforestation. __________________________________________________________________
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