Vocabulary
The average, year-after-year conditions of temperature, precipitation, wind, and clouds in an area.
What is climate?
Tennessee is in this type of zone.
What is the temperate zone?
This climate region is semiarid with short grasses and low bushes.
What is a steppe?
Use the graph on p. 339.
During this period, this location in Arizona gets the most precipitation.
When is July-September?
This is permanently froze tundra soil.
What is permafrost?
Between these latitudes, you can find the tropical zone.
Hint: use the map on p. 320
Where is 23.5 degrees north to 23.5 degrees south?
Temperature is affected by latitude, altitude, distance from large bodies of water, and this.
What are ocean currents?
The two major factors scientists use to classify climates.
What are temperature and precipitation?
The rain forests of South America are in this type of climate region.
What is tropical wet-and-dry?
Antarctica has very little of this, and that makes its' classification a desert.
What is precipitation?
Much of the west coasts of North America, South America, and Europe have this type of climate.
What is marine climate?
These climates reach more extreme temperatures than marine climates.
What are continental climates?
This word is used to describe a desert.
What is arid?
This climate is warm, wet, and located on the edges of the tropics.
What is humid subtropical?
These zones are between the tropical zones and the polar zones.
What are temperate zones?
Rain or snow falls on this side of the mountains, the side the wind hits.
What is the windward side?
The main factors that affect precipitation are prevailing winds, presence of mountains, and this.
What are seasonal winds?
This climate lies north of humid continental climates.
What is subartic?
This climate is located in the interior of a large continent, east side of a major mountain range, and with winds usually from west to east.
What is dry?
These types of winds usually only blow in one direction.
What are prevailing winds?
Sea and land breezes over a large region that change direction with the seasons.
What are monsoons?
This zone has the highest average temperatures year round.
What is the tropical zone?
Temperature falls as altitude increases, so these regions are colder than the regions that surround them.
What are highlands?
In addition to precipitation and temperature, Koppens' climate system classified climates by a region's _______________.
What is vegetation?
This is where coastal deserts are usually found.
Hint: never eat soggy
What is the western edge of continents?