Climate and weather
This is the average weather of a place over many years.
What is climate?
This is the height above sea level.
What is altitude?
These large bodies of water help regulate the Earth's temperature.
What are oceans?
A swirling funnel of wind that can reach 300 mph.
What is a tornado?
This is water that falls to Earth as rain, snow, sleet or hail.
What is precipitation?
The areas between the high and low latitudes.
What are the temperate zones/middle latitudes?
The movement of water from Earth's surface into the atmosphere and back.
What is the water cycle?
The area of rising air near that Equator.
What is the Intertropical Convergence Zone?
Geographers use these tools to compare climates between areas.
What are climate graphs?
These are the areas between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn.
All freshwater comes from this source.
What is precipitation?
A cyclone that forms over the Atlantic Ocean.
This is the condition of the air and sky at a certain time
What is weather?
These are the areas north of the Arctic Circle and south of the Antarctic Circle.
What are the polar zones/low latitudes?
Process by which a liquid changes to a gas.
What is evaporation?
These storms dump snow on parts of North America.
What are blizzards?
How hot or cold the air is.
What is temperature?
This causes the "seasons" on Earth.
What is the tilt of Earth?
This is the process in which a liquid changes to a gas.
What is evaporation?
an intense rainstorm with strong winds that forms over oceans in the tropics.
What is a tropical cyclone?