What is averaging weather conditions over a long period of time?
100
Distance from the equator, elevation, proximity to bodies of water, and landforms.
What are factors that affect climate?
100
Temperate, Tropical, and Polar
What are the three main climate zones?
100
A dry environment with temperatures that are very hot during the day and cold at night.
What is a Desert?
200
Describes what the atmosphere is like at a given time and place.
What is weather?
200
Wind speed, wind direction, cloud cover, air pressure, and amount of precipitation.
What are factors that affect climate?
200
Usually have warmer climates?
What is places closer to the equator?
200
Farthest from the equator with cold temperatures year round and low amounts of precipitation.
What are polar climates?
200
An area covered in water where temperatures are very hot.
What is a swamp?
300
An area that has similar average temperatures and precipitation throughout.
What is climate zone?
300
The climate zone that we live in.
What is Tropical?
300
A warm ocean current that flows up from near the equator, along the east coast of North America, and across the Atlantic Ocean toward northern Europe.
What is the Gulf Stream?
300
Occur near the equator with generally warm temperatures.
What are tropical climates?
300
An area that is warm and wet, providing food and shelter for many animals.
What is a Rain Forest?
400
The imaginary line that divides Earth into its northern and southern hemispheres, or halves.
What is the equator?
400
Polar climates receive very little of this.
What is precipitation?
400
When wet air that formed over the ocean rises up the side of a mountain clouds form and precipitation takes place on the ocean side of the mountain and the dry air moves down the far side of the mountain.
What is a rain-shadow effect?
400
Found in the middle latitudes and usually have four distinct seasons.
What are temperate climates?
400
The climate zone that penguins live in.
What is polar?
500
A measure of how far north or south a place is from the equator.
What is latitude?
500
Latitudes that are halfway between the poles and the tropics.
What are middle latitudes?
500
The climate gets warmer because warm water is being brought in.
What is the affect of the Gulf Stream.
500
Much of the United States is found in this climate zone.