The Water Planet
Climate
Climate Zones and Vegetation
Environmental Balance
Map Skills and Trivia
100
The atmosphere holds water in the form of gas.
What is Water Vapor?
100
Unpredictable changes in air that take place over a short period of time.
What is Weather?
100
This climate can be separated into 2 types and is near the equator.
What are tropical climates?
100
Chemicals that combine with air pollution and fall to earth as rain.
What is Acid Rain?
100
15 degrees south and 47 degrees west
What is Brazil
200
Water goes from the oceans to the air to the ground and back to the oceans.
What is Water Cycle?
200
A predictable pattern of weather in an area over a long period of time.
What is climate?
200
These climate zones include the Marine West Coast Climate, the Mediterranean Climate, Humid Continental Climate and the Humid Subtropical Climate.
What are Mid-Latitude Climates?
200
Cutting down forests without replanting.
What is deforestation?
200
9 degrees North and 38 degrees East
What is Ethiopia
300
Only 2 % of the water on earth is freshwater. 80% of that freshwater that covers the earth is frozen in giant sheets of ice or polar ice caps.
What are glaciers?
300
A low latitude area near the equator where the climate is hot and it lies between 23 & 1/2 degrees north latitude and 23 & 1/2 degrees south latitude.
What are tropics?
300
This climate zone includes the Sub-Artic Climate, the Tundra Climate, and the Ice Cap Climate.
What are High Latitude Climates?
300
When farmers change what they plant in a field to avoid using up all the minerals in a soil.
What is crop rotation.
300
35 degrees South and 149 degrees East
What is Australia
400
Tiny droplets of water that forms clouds and falls back to earth as rain, snow, sleet or hail.
What is precipitation?
400
A long period of extreme dryness.
What is a drought?
400
This zone refers to an area that can be extremely hot during the day and very cold at night and includes the desert and steppe climate.
What are Dry Climates?
400
The careful use of our natural resources so that they are not depleted.
What is conservation?
400
Wind or water carrying soil away.
What is Erosion?
500
98% of the planet's water.
What is Salt Water?
500
Moving streams of ocean water that carry warm or cool water and affects the climate in a particular area.
What are ocean currents?
500
This zone has cool or cold temperatures year round and is found on mountains, even those mountains near the equator.
What is a Highland Climate?
500
A practice of collecting water and distributing it to their crops that farmers practice.
What is crop rotation?
500
38 degrees North and 77 degrees West
What is the United States?
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