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MOUNTAINS AND???
CLIMATE ZONES
Wind and CURRENTS
Who knows?
100
This climate type has rain forests.
What is tropical humid?
100
This happens to temperature as you go up a mountain.
What is it falls?
100

This is the coldest climate type.

What is Ice Cap?

100

The hot, dry air produces little precipitation in an effect known as a

What is the Rain Shadow ?

100
The name for the day when the poles are farthest away from or toward the sun.
What are the solstices?
200
This climate is considered the best by many people.
What is Mediterranean?
200
Moist air rises and rains/snows because of a mountain. This occurs the this side of the mountain.
What is the windward side?
200
The zone with little precipitation.
What is arid or desert?
200
These are areas of little or no wind.
What are the doldrums?
200
The spinning of earth on its axis.
What is rotation?
300
This climate is on the edge of the arctic ocean.
What is tundra?
300
A rain shadow would be on this side of a mountain.
What is the leeward side?
300

falling off or shed seasonally or periodically; trees such as oak and maple, which lose their leaves in autumn

What is deciduous?

300

These are winds that blow primarily in the same direction.

What are prevailing winds?

300
The days when neither pole is facing away from the sun.
What are the equinoxes?
400
This is why we have leap year every 4 years.
What is the earth orbit is actually 365 days and 6 hours.
400
The two middle latitude climates not affected as much by the ocean.
What are subtropical and humid continental?
400

referring to vegetation having cones and needle-shaped leaves, including many evergreens, that keep their foliage throughout the winter


What is coniferous?

400

 This is a major type of ecological community defined primarily by distinctive natural vegetation and animal groups.

What is a Biome?

400

In parts of the subarctic, only a thin layer of surface soil thaws each summer. Below is permanently frozen subsoil, or _____________

What is a permafrost?

500
This is the number of degrees the earth is tilted.
What is 23.5?
500

This is a periodic change in the pattern of ocean currents, water temperatures, and weather in the mid-Pacific region.

What is El Niño? 

500
The line that is the farthest south you can go and still be considered in the tropics.
What is the tropic of Capricorn?
500

the resulting diagonal movement, either north or south, of prevailing winds caused by the Earth’s rotation

What is the Coriolis effect?

500

is the warming of the Earth that occurs when the sun’s radiation passes through the atmosphere, is absorbed by the Earth, and is radiated as heat energy back into the atmosphere where it cannot escape into space.

What is greenhouse effect

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