Definitions
How hot or cold an area is
What is Temperature?
The height above sea level.
What is Altitude?
This means “scorching”, receives the most sun, and includes the equator.
What are the Torrid Zones?
This latitude line is the very middle latitude line.
What is the Equator?
How much rain, snow, sleet an area receives
What is precipitation?
This impacts precipitation and temperature of an area.
What is the Distance of the Ocean?
This means “extremely cold”, high latitude climates, and is cold ALL YEAR
What are the Frigid Zones?
This latitude line is the next line north of the middle line.
What is the Tropic of Cancer?
The temperature and precipitation of an area that changes from day to day
What is weather?
The location of the area on the globe from east to west between the northern and southern hemispheres
What is Latitude?
This means “neither very hot nor very cold” and “climates of seasonal change”.
What are the Temperate Zones?
This latitude line is the next line south of the middle line.
What is the Tropic of Capricorn?
Weather Conditions of an area over a period of MANY YEARS
What is Climate?
True/False Weather is the same as Climate.
What is false?
These Zones are considered the extreme zones.
What are the Torrid Zones and the Frigid Zones?
These two latitude lines have the word circle in the name.
What are the Arctic Circle and the Antarctic Circle?
A part of the year in which the weather conditions are somewhat alike
What is a Season?
These 3 things determine the climate of an area.
What are Latitude, Distance from the Ocean, and Altitude?
We live in this Zone.
What is the Temperate Zone?
These are the very top and bottom latitude lines of our globe.
What are the North Pole and the South Pole?