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The weather conditions, including temperature, precipitation, and wind, usually found in a place or region.
Climate
This is the gaseous layer surrounding our planet?
The atmosphere
This is a measurement of how hot or cold something is?
Temperature
This is the amount of water vapor in the air or dampness.
Humidity
What Climate do we live in?
Temperate Climate
These climate zones are found around the equator and have warm temperatures year round?
Tropical Climates
Any form of water that falls from the sky is called?
Precipitation
An area that is very likely to flood?
Floodplain
To adapt to changes in a certain climate or environment?
Acclimatize
The height of the land above sea level or Earth’s surface.
Altitude
These Climate Zones are cold and dry year round and are found furthest from the equator?
Polar Climates
Name three forms of precipitation?
Acceptable Answers: Rain, Sleet, Snow, or Hail
This is the direction the wind is blowing towards?
Leeward
When living things change to survive in certain conditions?
Adapt
What are the four seasons we experience?
Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall
This climate zone is where we live and has all four seasons?
Temperate Zone
This is the direction the wind is blowing from?
Windward
When an area is experiencing a _________, rainfall and water are scarce.
Drought
This is a line of latitude that splits our planet in 2 found at 0 degrees? (Hottest Temperatures)
Equator
What happens to the temperature as you go to a higher altitude? (Does it get warmer or colder)
Colder
Bonus 500!
This climate is very dry and has little to no rainfall year round.
Deserts
Bonus 500 Question!
These winds blow weather and airmasses from one place to another?
Prevailing Winds
Bonus 500!
A location’s distance north or south of the equator? These lines help form the climate zones!
Lines of Latitude
Bonus 500
State one animal adaptation you know!
Answers will vary!
Possible answers: Fur, Flying, Gills, Venom, Blending In, Hibernation, Webbed Feet, Feathers........
Bonus 500!
What causes the different seasons around Planet Earth?
Earths Tilt on Axis. (23.5 degrees)