Climate
This climate factor that affects the temperature of an area is the distance north or south of the equator.
What is latitude?
When the Earth is tilted toward the sun in the northern hemisphere, it is ___________________.
What is summer?
Line of latitude that divides Earth into Northern and Southern Hemispheres, and receives the most direct sunlight year-round.
What is the equator?
The rainforest gets a lot of rain and sunlight so it has _______________.
What is vegetation?
This gives the Earth heat and light
What is the sun?
Another name for the high latitudes
What is polar?
Earth's seasons are caused by __________ .
What are the tilt of Earth's axis as it revolves around the sun?
Rotation causes _________ and __________.
What are day and night?
Two polar climates are __________________.
What are tundra and ice cap?
The average year-to-year weather in an area.
What is climate?
Land near oceans have _____________ temperatures.
What is mild?
Two days of the year that mark the beginning of spring and fall when daylight and night time are equal in length.
What is the equinox?
The percentage of Earth covered by water
What is 70%?
Pennsylvania's climate is ____________________.
What is humid continental?
Earth's revolution takes this long
What is 365 1/4 days or 1 year?
These move across great distances in the ocean and are like rivers. The Gulf Stream is an example of one.
What are ocean currents?
The day that marks the beginning of summer when daylight hours in the Northern Hemisphere are the longest of the year.
What is the summer solstice?
This is an imaginary line through Earth between the North and South poles, around which Earth turns.
What is Earth's axis?
Arid and semi-arid are types of ______ climates.
What is dry?
How hot or cold the air is
What is temperature?
4 seasons climates are found in these latitude zones
What are middle or temperate latitudes?
When the Earth is tilted away from the sun in the northern hemisphere, it is ___________.
What is winter?
Mountains, plains, hills, and plateaus are this
What are landforms?
Name the six climate categories.
What are tropical, dry, temperate marine, temperate continental, polar, and vertical?
A tropical cyclone that occurs over the Atlantic Ocean
What is a hurricane?