EARTH IN SPACE
Earth is this numbered planet from the sun.
What is the third?
The low latitudes are also known by this name.
What are the tropics?
This term means the condition of the atmosphere at a particular time and place.
What is weather?
Rain, snow, sleet, and hail are forms of this.
What is precipitation?
This term means a region's average weather over an extended period.
What is climate?
This star supplies most of the thermal energy that warms Earth.
What is the sun?
These regions near the North and South Poles are the high latitudes.
What are the polar regions?
This weather condition measures how hot or cold the air is.
What is temperature?
The change of liquid water into water vapor is called this.
What is evaporation?
This field studies long-term weather conditions.
What is climatology?
Earth's spinning on its axis is called this.
What is rotation?
These two named lines mark the northern and southern limits of the tropics.
What are the Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn?
This instrument measures atmospheric pressure.
What is a barometer?
When water vapor cools and changes into liquid droplets, this process occurs.
What is condensation?
This type of graph displays monthly temperature and precipitation patterns across a year.
What is a climograph?
This movement takes Earth around the sun about once each year.
What is revolution?
This event occurs twice a year when day and night are approximately equal worldwide.
What is an equinox?
Name all five basic conditions used to describe weather in this chapter.
What are temperature, atmospheric pressure, wind, precipitation, and humidity?
This term means the amount of moisture in a given volume of air.
What is humidity?
Name the chapter's five major climate groups.
What are tropical rainy, dry, temperate, cold, and varied highland?
Earth's axis is tilted by approximately this many degrees.
What is 23½ degrees?
In the Northern Hemisphere, the June solstice marks the beginning of this season, while the December solstice marks the opposite season.
What is summer?
Compared with sea level, atmospheric pressure at a high mountain location is generally this.
What is lower?
This is the temperature at which water vapor begins to condense.
What is the dew point?
Climate helps determine which plants and animals can thrive in an area; these living communities are called these zones.
What are biotic zones?