Biomes where you would find polar bears and walruses.
What is a tundra?
100
This does not produce long-term climate change.
What is an erupting volcano?
200
Most of the time weather moves across the United States in this direction.
What is from west to east?
200
Both of these have little annual precipitation.
What are tundra and desert?
200
This covers 75 % of the Earth.
What is the Ocean?
200
This biome is characterized by significant precipation and contains more than 50% of all the species on Earth.
What is a tropical rain forest?
200
Most of the United States is located in this climate zone.
What is temperate?
300
This type of weather system would most likely produce a drought.
What is a persistent high pressure system?
300
As a front passes through your area, thunderstoms occur, winds shirft from southeast to northwest, and the temperature changes from 85 to 65 degrees fahrenheit.
What is a cold front?
300
Condensation of water vapor.
What is the formation of rain droplets?
300
The state of Alaska is in these two biomes.
What is Taiga and Tundra?
300
The movement, colliding, and separating of this land mass over millions of years has changed climates dramatically.
What are continents?
400
This type of weather should be expected when the high temperature of the day is 33 degrees fahrenheit, and the relative humidity is 93%.
What is a snowstorm?
400
These two factors determine the climate of a region.
What is temperature and rainfall?
400
This causes heat energy to move from the equator to the polar regions.
What is warm water currents?
400
The largest part of this biome is located in South America.
What is the rainforest?
400
This is known as the average weather in a region over many years.
What is climate?
500
This phenomenon happens every two to seven years, and the winds blow from west instead of the east.
What is El Nino?
500
This explains why equatorial regions are always warmer than polar regions.
What is more intense sunlight?
500
When water evaporates from a surface, it has this effect on the remaining water.
What is cooling?
500
Tundra, Taiga, Grasslands, Decidous forest, Desert, Wetlands, and Coniferous forest.
What are the seven biomes?
500
This would lower the Earth's temperature by filling the atmosphere with dust.