Climate Zones
This climate zone receives the most amount of rain and the highest temperatures
What is a tropical climate?
As you go further up a mountain this factor affects the climate
What is elevation?
The line on the climograph means
What is Temperature?
This is another word for rain
What is precipitation?
This climate type allows the most vegetation to grow
What is a Tropical Climate?
This climate zone receives less than 10 inches of rain per year
What is a dry climate?
As you go further away from the equator the sun's rays do what?
The sun's rays are less intense/direct
The bars on the bar graph mean
What is precipitation?
This term means that a city is toward the middle of the continent
What is intercontinental?
This type of climate usually has cacti growing here.
What is a dry climate?
This climate zone is where most of the worlds population lives
What is a temperate climate?
As you go further up in elevation what starts to happen more
What is rain?
When the temperature line is flat that means that the city is located where
What is along the coast
This term refers to what it is like outside on any given day
What is weather?
The type of climate with the easiest climate to live in.
What is a mild/moderate climate?
This climate zone has the most weather phenomena
What is a continental climate?
These winds constantly move in the same direction
What are trade winds?
This indicator on a climograph will tell us if the city is near sea level or in the mountains
What is elevation
The average weather over a 30 year period
What is climate?
The biggest desert in the world
What is antarctica?
This climate can only grow mosses and Lichen
What is a Polar Climate?
When winds are pushed toward land and precipitation begins on one side of the mountain but not the other that is called what?
What is a rain shadow?
What is 30 years?
treeless plain especially of arctic regions having a permanently frozen layer
What is a Tundra?
The three types of this climate are warm summer, cool summer, and subarctic
What is a continental climate?