Definitions
Climate Determining Factors
Climate Zones
Identifying Lines of Latitude
100

How hot or cold an area is

What is Temperature?

100

The height above sea level.

What is Altitude?

100

This means “scorching”, receives the most sun, and includes the equator.

What are the Torrid Zones?

100

This latitude line is the very middle latitude line.

What is the Equator?

200

How much rain, snow, sleet an area receives

What is precipitation?

200

This impacts precipitation and temperature of an area.

What is the Distance of the Ocean?

200

This means “extremely cold”, high latitude climates, and is cold ALL YEAR

What are the Frigid Zones?

200

This latitude line is the next line north of the middle line.

What is the Tropic of Cancer?

300

The temperature and precipitation of an area that changes from day to day

What is weather?

300

The location of the area on the globe from east to west between the northern and southern hemispheres

What is Latitude?

300

This means “neither very hot nor very cold” and “climates of seasonal change”.

What are the Temperate Zones?

300

This latitude line is the next line south of the middle line.

What is the Tropic of Capricorn?

400

Weather Conditions of an area over a period of MANY YEARS

What is Climate?

400

True/False Weather is the same as Climate.

What is false?

400

These Zones are considered the extreme zones.

What are the Torrid Zones and the Frigid Zones?

400

These two latitude lines have the word circle in the name.

What are the Arctic Circle and the Antarctic Circle?

500

A part of the year in which the weather conditions are somewhat alike

What is a Season?

500

These 3 things determine the climate of an area.

What are Latitude, Distance from the Ocean, and Altitude?

500

We live in this Zone.

What is the Temperate Zone?

500

These are the very top and bottom latitude lines of our globe.

What are the North Pole and the South Pole?

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