the zone or area between the tropical and polar zones
What is temperate?
100
A forest in the tropical wet climate zone in which large amounts of rain fall year round
What is rain forest?
100
The climate of the centers of continents, with cold winters and warm or hot summers
What is continental?
100
A _?_ climate would be most likely found in an area located in the interior of a large continent on the east side of a major mountain range where winds commonly blow from west to east
What is dry?
100
Speed depends on _?_ and time.
What is distance?
200
The zone or area near both poles
What is polar?
200
The Great Plains of the U.S. are an example of this climate
What is semiarid?
200
The average, year after year conditions of temperature, precipitation, winds and clouds in an area
What is climate?
200
An arid region that on average receives less than 25 cm of rain a year
What is desert?
200
The producers, or first step in a food chain, are generally ...
What are plants?
300
The zone or area near the equator
What is tropical?
300
A tropical grassland with scattered clumps of trees
What is savanna?
300
Climate conditions within a small area that differ from those in the surrounding area
What is microclimate?
300
Tropical rain forests are important because it is thought that at least _?_ of the world's species of land plants and animals are found there
What is half?
300
In an experiment, the variable that is purposely changed by you is the _?_ variable.
What is independent?
400
The zone or area that we live in
What is temperate?
400
A prairie or grassland found in the semiarid climate region
What is steppe?
400
This and temperature are used to classify climates
What is precipitation?
400
The climate of some coastal regions, with relatively warm winters and cool summers
What is marine?
400
The lowest layer of the atmosphere (closest to Earth) is the ...
What is the troposphere?
500
The zone or area that is the coldest
What is polar?
500
A polar climate region, found across northern Alaska, Canada, and Russia, with short cool summers and bitterly cold winters
What is tundra?
500
A wet, warm climate zone on the edge of the tropics is called the humid ...
What is subtropical?
500
A polar climate region, found across northern Alaska, Canada, and Russia with short cool summers and bitterly cold winters
What is tundra?
500
Gravity depends on the _?_ of the objects and the distance between them.