This involves the changes that take place in the lower part of the earth's atmosphere in a localized area during a short period to time.
What is weather?
100
These begin with the transfer of hot air from the tropics to the poles and cold air from the polar regions to the tropics.
What are wind patterns?
100
This man charted ocean's currents and much physical geography.
Who is Matthew Maury?
100
This is the release of water from the atmosphere in the form of rain.
What is precipitation?
100
The man who introduced climatic classification.
Who is Wladimir Koppen?
200
This involves certain patterns of weather which occur over a long period of time in a particular region.
What is climate?
200
This is known as the weight of the atmosphere.
What is atmospheric pressure?
200
These are great rotating storms or cyclones.
What are hurricanes?
200
This climate experience high temperatures and heavy precipitation.
What are tropical climates?
300
Geographers have divided the earth into these based on latitude.
What are climate zones?
300
These winds were named by merchant sailors in the 18th and 19th centuries because they were used to sail from Europe to the Americas.
What are the trade winds?
300
Matthew Maurys work was very important in laying this which provided the first direct communications link between North America and Europe.
What is the first transatlantic underwater telegraph cable?
300
This type of precipitation results when warm air rises over the mountains and cools.
What is orographic precipitation?
300
This climate occurs in both lower and higher latitudes and can be classified as either desert or steppe?
What is a dry climate?
400
This climate zone is warm all year. It extends from the tropic of Cancer to the tropic of Capricorn.
What is the Torrid Zone?
400
Matthew Maury used these to chart ocean currents.
What are drift bottles?
400
This form of precipitation is common in the tropics, it occurs when hot humid air rises and cools, loosing its ability to hold as much moisture.
What is vocational precipitation?
400
This description of climate is found in the lower latitudes of the Temperate Zones. They do not generally have extremes in temperatures, but occasionally experience cold winters.
What are the mild climates?
500
The two of these are found in the far north and south and extend from the Arctic and Antarctic Circles to their respective poles.
What are the Frigid Zones?
500
This is a warm current of water flowing northeasterly from the Gulf of Mexico to Europe, has a warming effect on Western Europe.
What is the Gulf Stream?
500
This is Matthew Maury's nickname.
Who is the Pathfinder of the Seas?
500
This is a form of evaporation carried out by plants where they absorb water from the roots and transport it to the leaves where the leaves transpire.
What is evapotranspiration?
500
These climate zones are located in the upper latitudes of the Temperature Zone on continents of the Northern Hemisphere.