Water
Climate
Monsoons
Climate Zones
Potpourri
100
Percentage of the earth that is covered by water
What is 70%
100
The tropics are between these two lines of latitude
What are 23 1/2* N. and South latitudes
100
Source of the two branches of the Monsoons in India
What is the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal
100
Description of a Tropical Savanna
What is rain falls a few months out of the year, and the rest of the year is hot and dry
100
violent tropical storm with high winds and heavy rains
What is a hurricane
200
Four sources of freshwater
What are lakes, rivers, glaciers, and groundwater
200
A dry area on the leeward side of a mountain
What is a rain shadow
200
Months that 90% of India's rain occurs. It is in the Wet season called Barsat
What is late June - mid September
200
Vegetation that is found in the Mediterranean climate region
What are shrubs and short trees
200
Buildup of certain gases in the atmoshphere that holds more of the sun's warmth
What is the greenhouse effect
300
the largest and deepest ocean
What is the Pacific Ocean
300
Warm currents in cunjunction with warm air that bring warmer weather to Europe
What is the Gulf Stream
300
Ways in which Blandford set up the first meteorogical network for keeping data on monsoons....name two ways
What are daily weather telegrams, kite stations, mountain observatories, and recruited interested individuals.
300
Huge evergreen forests close to the poles and found in Northern Russia
What is taiga
300
moving streams of water in the world's oceans, which affect the climate of land areas
What are currents
400
80% of earth's freshwater is stored here
What are glaciers
400
Two ways in which people affect climate
What are 1) burning fossil fuels 2) Clearing rain forests
400
Direction monsoons move through India
What is sea to land and continue to move northeast into the land
400
Description of a Desert
What is less than 10" of rainfall per year
400
underground rock layer that water flows through
What is an aquifer
500
the four steps of the water cycle
What is evaporation, condensation, precipitation, and collection
500
Formed when cold winds from the east are weak and cause the Pacific Ocean to grow warmer than usual, which changes wind and rain patterns
What is El Nino
500
importance of forests for monsoons
What is seeds passing clouds (transpiration) and recharges aquifers to hold groundwater
500
Elevation above which no trees grow
What is the timberline
500
umbrella-like covering formed by the tops of trees in a rain forest
What is a canopy
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