CLIMATOLOGY

Cards (11)

  • Climate
    The long-term patterns of weather in a particular area
  • Climatology
    A scientific discipline dedicated to studying the atmosphere and long-term weather phenomena
  • RA no. 9729 aims to integrate disaster risk reduction measures into climate change adaptation plans, development and poverty reduction programs
  • Anemometer
    A device that detects wind speed by utilizing a spinning wheel mechanism
  • The National Climate Change Action Plan aims to address the country's vulnerabilities to climate change by integrating climate change adaptation and mitigation into national and local planning processes
  • The Climate Change Commission is the agency responsible for climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies in the Philippine- TRUE
  • Regional Climatology
    The branch of Climatology that aims to determine various types of world climates by summarizing typical weather conditions and climate of a region
  • Climate change is the long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns- TRUE
  • Physical Climatology
    The branch that investigates the physical mechanisms governing changes in climate
  • Deforestation
    Refers to the purposeful clearing or thinning of trees and forests contributing to climate change
  • El Niño
    The adverse effect of climate change that describes the unusual warming of surface waters in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean