Weather and Climate
This is a region's average weather conditions over a long period.
Climate
This climate region often borders deserts.
Steppe
A group of plants and animals that depend on each other for survival and the environment in which they live.
Ecosystem
The clearing of trees
Deforestation
List 2 types of fossil fuels
Any two of the following will work:
Coal
Petroleum or oil
Natural gas
Winds that blow in the same direction over large areas of Earth.
Prevailing winds
This climate region occurs mainly in the Northern hemisphere, south of the Arctic Ocean.
Subarctic
This is the place where a plant or animal lives.
Habitat
Most energy we use comes from these
Fossil fuels
This produces dangerous wastes that must be stored for thousands of years before they are safe
Nuclear energy
Large streams of surface seawater driven by winds that move heat around Earth.
Ocean currents
This climate region occurs along east coasts near the tropics.
Humid Subtropical
This is decayed plant or animal matter.
Humus
*Daily Double*
This is one way to make the supply of mineral resources last longer.
Recycling
This climate receives less than 10 inches of rain a year
Desert
*Daily Double*
A dry area on the mountainside facing away from the direction of the wind.
Rain shadow
This climate region is actually several climates in one, and is found on mountains.
Highland
This is the spread of desert-like conditions.
Desertification
This is obtained by splitting atoms
Nuclear energy
The height on Earth's surface above sea level.
Elevation
The place where two air masses of different temperatures or moisture content meet.
Front
Permafrost occurs in some parts of this climate region.
Tundra
Name one of the two ways that soil can lose its fertility.
Erosion
OR
Planting the same crops over and over.
Any material in nature that people use and value
Natural resource
This is the sideways movement of air
Wind