Climate
The pattern of weather that occurs in an area over many years.
What is climate?
What is three?
This can occur in the form of snow, rain, sleet, or hail.
What is precipitation?
A large group of people with a common culture, history, and/or language with a strong identity.
What is a nation?
A new form of communication that makes it easier, but not explicitly better.
What is social media?
This is currently happening to the hole in the ozone layer
What is it is repairing itself
The state of the atmosphere at any particular time or place.
What is weather?
The earth rotates on an axis that is tilted at this degree.
A region that has similar weather, wildlife, and plants for a long period of time. Savannah and Plains are Minecraft examples.
What is a biome?
DAILY DOUBLE - Wager
Define 4/6 of the following terms.
Theocracy
Oligarchy
Democracy
Autocracy
Republic
Dictatorship
This is the primary way culture is transmitted
What is language?
This refers to the dispersion of people over a given area.
What is population distribution?
The name given to the region on Earth’s surface found between 23.5°N and 23.5°S latitude.
What is the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn?
The point at which day and night are roughly equal all over the world
What is an equinox?
The place where warm and cold air meets.
What is a front?
The study of how a country or people group uses their resources.
What is economics?
This is the rule of man over man.
What is government?
This force holds the earth's atmosphere to the planet.
What is gravity?
When the sun and the moon line up in relation to the earth, one of these takes place.
What is an eclipse?
Land beyond the mountains where it is naturally dry and arid due to precipitation not making it over the mountain.
What is a rain shadow?
A type of command economy where the government controls the means of production. The most extreme version is known as communism.
What is socialism?
The number you get when you subtract the natural death rate from the crude birth rate.
This snack can be made in the microwave or on the stove, and usually has butter and salt.
What is popcorn?
This effect causes winds of different regions of the earth to blow in different directions.
What is the Coriolis effect?
The sun's rays hit the earth and bounce off, providing light and heat, and are then trapped by the atmosphere, causing this effect.
What is the greenhouse effect?
These are the three wind patterns that the earth has.
What are polar easterlies, prevailing westerlies, and trade winds?
This can happen to climate as a result of Volcanic eruptions and Meteorite's
What is becomes colder
These countries are able to spend more time worrying about climate change and ecology.
What are wealthier countries?
This video game from the 2000s was a point and click adventure game featuring islands such as "24 Carrot," "Shark Tooth," and "Time Twisted"
What is Poptropica?