Climate Zone
How many climate zones are there?
What is 3?
place that get less than 10 inches of rain a year
What is a desert?
The rainfall in this climate zone is between 10-20 inches in a year.
What is the grasslands?
The height of an area above sea level is called _____.
What is altitude?
Name the three climate zones:
What is polar, temperate, and tropical?
Because so little rainfalls, few_________ grow in the grasslands.
What is trees?
Close to the equator the climate is ___________.
What is tropical?
The lines that measure distance north and south of the equator are called ________.
What is latitude?
The largest tropical rain forest is along the _______ river in ____________ America.
What is Amazon River and South America?
Grasslands contain some of the best ______________ in the world.
What is farmland?
Climates can change as you go from the equator to the __________.
What is poles?
This is a moving stream of water in an ocean:
What is a current?
In Australia, grasslands are home for? (we call it a Joey)
What is a kangaroo?
An area high on a mountain where no trees grow is called an ____________.
What is alpine meadow?
We live in this climate zone:
What is temperate?
What types of tree lose all their leaves in the fall?
What is deciduous?
A huge area of plains with no trees near the arctic is called ____.
What is tundra?