Physical map of Europe
How does climate affect landscapes?
Climates on Earth
Landscapes
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What is the physical border that divides Europe and Asia?
The Ural Mountains.
100
What does each part of the climate graph represent?
Temperature, average temperature per month, precipitation, average precipitation per month and months.
100
What is the difference between climate and weather?
The climate is the weather conditions for a long period of time while the weather is the precipitation and the temperature of a specific place at a specific time.
100
What is a landscape?
A landscape is all the visible features on a large area of land.
200
What is the sea that Spain, Italy, France and Greece mainly share?
The Mediterranean Sea.
200
What's the definition of climate?
The climate is the average weather conditions in a place for a long period of time.
200
Spain has basically two types of climates. What are they?
Mediterranean and oceanic.
200
What are the two different types of landscapes?
Natural landscapes and humanised landscapes.
300
What's the river that you will see if you want to travel to London?
Thames river.
300
The Earth has three climatic zones. What are they?
Cold zone, temperate zone and cold zone.
300
In the Hot zone, the temperature is almost the same in all types of climates (very high through the year and no seasons). The difference between the climates is found in precipitation. In which of the three hot climates do we have a WET SEASON (that means several months with lots of precipitation)?
Tropical climate.
300
There are three types of humanised landscapes. What are they and which economic sector is more predominant in each one?
Rural landscapes (primary sector), industrial landscapes (secondary sector) and urban landscapes (secondary and tertiary sector).
400
Each one of the team will have to come and point at one physical land feature of Europe. (Mountains, mounts, peninsulas or plains).
Caucasus mountains, Scandinavian mountains/peninsula, Carpathian mountains, Jutland peninsula, Ural mountains, Apenines mountains, Mount Elbrus, Mount Blanc...
400
What are thre three factors that affect the precipitation and the temperature?
Altitude, proximity to the sea and distance fomr the Equator.
400
What type of climate is the following?
Polar climate.
400
Rainforests are areas with tall and evergreen trees. In which climates can we find this type of landscapes?
Equatorial climate.
500
Each one of the team will ahve to point at one physical water feature of Europe.
(Oceans, rivers or seas)
Atlatic ocean, Artic ocean, North Sea, Norwegian Sea, Black Sea, Adriatic Sea, Volga river, Thames river, Seine river, Loire river, Mediterranean Sea, Ural river, Danube river...
500
What are the main climates located in each climatic zone?
Equatorial, tropical and desert in hot zone.
Mediterranean, continental and oceanic in the temperate zone.
Mountain and polar climate in cold zone.
500
What type of climate is the following?
Mediterranean climate.
500
What type of landscapes can we find in oceanic climates?
Deciduous forests and moorland.