1. Environmental Science © 2012 W. H. Freeman and Company
Andrew Friedland • Rick Relyea
Environmental Science
FIRST EDITION
CHAPTER 4
Global Climates and Biomes
© 2012 W. H. Freeman and Company

2. Food, Drought and Famine

3. Weather -v- Climate

4. What influences weather and climate?
Unequal heating of Earth
Atmospheric convection currents
Rotation and Coriolis Effect
Earth’s orbit and tilted axis
Circulation of ocean waters

5. Studying Climate and Weather

6. 5 Layers of Atmosphere
Ozone !!
N2, O2 & H20

7. Solar Radiation in Thermosphere

8. Unequal Heating of Earth
Angle of sun through atmosphere
Angle of sunlight across surface
Albedo

11. Why does it rain so much at the equator?

17. Air Circulation & Biomes
Fig p. 118
Fig. 6-9 b & c p. 1117

22. ENSO

23. Effects of ENSO
2014
1998
2010 & 2013
2005

29. Tundra

30. Taiga

31. Temperate Rainforest

32. Temperate Seasonal Forest

33. Chaparral

34. Temperate Grassland

35. Tropical Rainforest

36. Tropical Seasonal Forest & Savannah

37. Subtropical Desert