Vocabulary
What is the definition of permafrost?
Permanently frozen layers of soil
What are the three main climate zones related to latitude?
Tropical, Temperate, and Polar
This climate is the hottest and driest climate.
Desert
Continental
This climate has no plant life.
Ice Caps
What is the definition of a savanna?
Areas of tall grasses and scattered trees and shrubs.
What 2 climate zones do not relate to latitiude?
Dry and Highland
This climate has short grasses and sparse trees and shrubs
Savanna
What Climate is the most popular vacation spot?
Mediterranean
Which climate has permafrost?
Tundra
What is an effect of permafrost?
Frozen earth absorbs water poorly, so marshes and ponds form in the summer.
What 3 things do Geographers identify climates by?
Temperature, Precipitation, and Plant Life
This climate receives slightly more rain than the desert and has short grasses with shrubs and trees along rivers.
Steppe
This climate has foggy winters and warm/sunny summers.
Marine
Which climate has evergreen forest called taiga?
Subarctic
What is the definition of a Steppe?
Semidry grasslands or praires.
This climate zone lies near the equator.
Tropical
What are the 4 Climate Zones for Tropical and Dry Climates
Rainforest, Savanna, Desert and Steppe.
What are the 4 Temperate Climate Zones
Mediterranean, Marine, Humid Subtropical, and Continental
List the four Polar and Highland Climates
Subarctic, Tundra, Ice Cap, Highland
What is the definition of a monsoon?
Seasonal winds that bring either dry or moist air.
This climate zone occurs about halfway between the equator and the poles in the middle latitudes.
Temperate
This is the cause of long rainy seasons and long dry seasons in the rainforest climate.
Monsoons
This climate has storms year round, including hurricanes
Humid Subtropical
What happens to the temperature and plant life as you go up a mountain in a Highland climate?
The temperature gets colder and the plant life gets sparser.