This imaginary line divides the earth into the Northern and Southern hemisphere.
What is the equator?
100
Temperature
What is a thermometer?
100
Low flat clouds
What is stratus?
100
The reason we have seasons.
What is the tilt of the Earth?
100
The prevailing winds of the United States
What is the westerlies?
200
The imaginary line the has the direct rays of the sun on June 21.
What is The Tropic of Cancer?
200
Wind direction
What is a weather vane or wind sock?
200
High, puffy clouds
What is cumulus?
200
The usual date of the vernal equinox.
What is March 21.
200
This scientist studies the weather.
What is a meteorologist?
300
This imaginary line marks where the Land of the Midnight Sun begins on June 21.
What is the Arctic Circle?
300
Wind speed
What is an anemometer.
300
High wispy clouds
What is cirrus?
300
The first day of summer for Sydney, Australia.
What is Dec. 21?
300
Rain water that can carry pesticides and other pollutants to lakes, rivers, and oceans.
What is runoff?
400
This line is the farthest south that the direct rays of the sun will reach.
What is the Tropic of Capricorn?
400
Rainfall
What is a rain gauge?
400
Summer storm clouds
What is cumulonimbus?
400
The longest day of the year for Durham, North Carolina.
What is June 21.
400
Weather trends for an area over a long period of time.
What is climate?
500
This imaginary line is found at 66 1/2 degrees south of the Equator.
What is the Antarctic Circle?
500
Air Pressure
What is a barometer?
500
All day rain clouds
What is nimbostratus?
500
This climate has 4 distinct climates.
What is temperate?
500
This term describes the unusual warming of the Pacific Ocean that can cause droughts in some areas and floods in others. It's name comes from the fact that it is usually noticed near Christmas.