The side of the mountain in which the wind blows into the mountain and causes more precipitation. Opposite of leeward.
Hint: where large amounts of vegetation will grow.
What is windward?
100
The major cause of the four seasons as the earth revolves around the sun in one year.
What is the tilt of the earth's axis?
100
period of below average precipitation
What is a Drought?
100
This marks the beginning of summer and winter.
What is the solstice?
100
Solar energy is more intense at the
What is equator?
200
Wind circulation pattern that change direction with the seasons
What is a monsoon?
200
When the northern hemisphere is tilted away from the sun during its orbit around the sun
What is winter in the northern hemisphere?
200
long cold period when glaciers cover much of the Earth
What are ice ages?
200
The two characteristics used to classify climate regions.
What is temperature and precipitation?
200
Rise in Earth's average surface temperature over the last 100 years.
What is global warming?
300
There are this many identified world climate types.
What is five?
Polar, Continental, Dry, Tropical, Mild
300
The season in the southern hemisphere when it is summer in the northern hemisphere
What is winter?
300
Temperature falls as altitude increases on this land feature.
What is a mountain?
300
The factor that contributes to the decrease in temperature in a high climate regions.
What is altitude?
300
short term climate changes include seasons, El Niño and monsoons. Long term climate changes include ice ages and
What are interglacials?
Warm periods that occur during ice ages.
400
Long term average weather conditions in a region
What is climate?
400
Longer days and more direct sun light during this season due to the tilt of the earth's axis.
What is summer?
400
A tropical island in the Atlantic Ocean will have what kind of climate?
What is Tropical (humid, hot, moist)?
400
Close to the equator trade winds blow (which direction)
What is east to west?
400
Large scale cutting or burning of forest.
What is deforestation?
500
area of low rainfall on leeward slope of a mountain
What is rain shadow?
500
localized climate that is different from the climate of the larger area around it
What is a microclimate?
500
Seasons change as the Earth completes one of these around the sun.
What is revolution?
500
Cycle of weakened trade winds resulting from change in ocean temperature.
What is El Nino?
500
Gases in the atmosphere that absorb Earth's outgoing infrared radiation.