An animal's long period of inactivity during winter
What is hibernation?
100
This is determined by averaging weather over a long period of time
What is climate?
100
He came up with a system to classify the climates into six groups--tropical, mild, dry, continental, polar, and high elevation.
Who is Wladimir Koppen?
100
Short periods of climatic change caused by differences in the amount of solar radiation an area receives
What are seasons?
100
Long, large wave caused by the gravitational pull of the Moon and Sun
What is tide?
200
Any structure or behavior that helps an organism survive in its environment
What is adaptation?
200
These are found between the tropics and the polar zones
What are temperate zones?
200
Body structures that help animals survive in certain climates, such as fur of mammals or a cactus's thick, fleshy stem.
What are structural adaptations?
200
An occasional climatic event in which strong Pacific winds weaken or reverse
What is El Nino?
200
A mineral that contains something that can be useful and sold for a profit
What is an ore?
300
Increase in global temperatures
What is the greenhouse effect?
300
These are a major influence on climate
What are large bodies of water?
300
A state of reduced activity, similar to hibernation, that occurs during periods of intense heat
What is estivation?
300
Burning these increases the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere
What are fossil fuels?
300
The three basic types of landforms
What are plains, plateaus, and mountains?
400
Destroying and cutting down trees
What is deforestation?
400
This is a dry area on the lee side of a mountainous area (away from the wind). The mountains block the passage of rain-producing weather systems and cast a "shadow" of dryness behind them.
What is a rain shadow?
400
Very few species can adapt to this
What is extreme cold, as is found in polar regions?
400
The movement of these affects the transfer of heat on Earth
What are crustal plates?
400
Process in which composition of the rock changes
What is chemical weathering?
500
planting vegetation to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide in the environment
What is reforestation?
500
Hibernation and estivation are two kinds of this
What is behavioral adaptation?
500
Moderate temperatures are characteristic of this climate zone