Climate Regions
Which climate region is hot and wet year-round?
Tropical
Climate graphs measure What two things over a year in a certain area?
Average temperature and amount of precipitation
What vegetation region does not get a lot of percipitation, making it very dry?
Desserts
True or False
Cold Water flows away from the equator.
False
Warm water flows away form the equator.
What are the two categories of changes?
Human and Natural
What is a climate region?
A place with common weather conditions
A climate graph allows the reader to see what in the graph?
Patterns or trends
Which type of tree keeps it’s leaves all year round?
Coniferous
The higher the altitude on a mountain, Is it warmer or colder?
Colder
Chemical fertilizers add what back into the soil?
Nutrients
Which climate region is very cold and dry year round?
Polar
What are the axis called in a climate graph
X-axis for months, y-axis for temperature and precipitation
What is located near the equator, between the Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn
Topical Rain Forests
Deforestation is a Natural or Human factor?
Human
Animals or plants from a foreign/different country or landform.
invasive species
Which climate region has very cold and very seasons
Continental
How many x-axis are there on a graph? How many y-axis?
One x, two y
Prairies are this type of vegetation region
Grasslands
What does burning fossil fuels release? What does it do?
Releases carbon dioxide, which traps heat in the atmosphere and warms the Earth over time.
What is animal grazing?
When animals eat the plants on the ground for food, ex. Cows eat the grass
Which climate region is Windsor in?
Temperate
A climate with low bars tells you what?
Not much precipitation
What is monoculture?
Farming where you plant the same crop in the same spot every year
How many periodic ocean currents are there in the Pacific Ocean? Name them.
A way to lower the effects of monoculture and over farming is?
Crop rotation