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World Climate Regions and Bonus Vocab
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100
The condition of the atmosphere at a particular time and location.
What is Weather
100
The term for weather conditions at a particular location over a long period of time.
What is Climate.
100
Explain a situation when it would be more important to know about weather instead of climate.
What is daily activities, planning a trip, deciding what to wear,
100
What general information about climate is included in a description of a climate region?
What is temperature and precipitation averages and patterns.
100
How are forestlands defined?
Defined by the type of trees found there: deciduous, coniferous, or mixed.
200
Falling water droplets in the form of sleep, snow, rain, or hail.
What is Precipitation
200
What role does convection play in precipitation?
Precipitation is a result of convection movement of warm, moist air.
200
Explain how climate and weather are related.
What is Weather is a daily activity and part of the overall climate pattern.
200
Name the 5 basic climate regions.
What is tropical, mid-latitude, high latitude, dry, and highland
200
Explain how climate affects soil.
Climate may affect soil depth, texture, weathering, humus, or acidity.
300
These are the major factors that cause weather (name at least 3)
What is solar energy, water vapor, cloud cover, landforms, bodies of water, elevation, and air movement
300
The dramatic changes in Pacific Ocean water temperatures.
What is El Nino.
300
Name the 4 factors that influence climate.
What is ocean/wind currents, latitude, elevation, topography.
300
An interdependent community of plants and animals
What is ecosystem
300
Where are rainforests fount?
What is near the equator in North America, South America, Africa, and Asia.
400
This causes changing seasons on earth.
What is earth's revolution and tilt
400
Increases in average global temperatures.
What is Greenhouse Effect.
400
Name a cause of global warming.
What is natural cycle change or introduction of a heat-trapping gas into the atmosphere.
400
A regional ecosystem.
What is Biome
400
Explain how savanna, steppe, and prairie are similar.
What is they are all terms for grasslands in different regions of the world.
500
Name the different types of precipitation.
What is convection, orographic, and frontal.
500
This can be affected by the greenhouse effect.
What is weather, climate, ecosystems, biomes, rainforests, and savannas.
500
Explain how currents affect climate.
Ocean currents move warm water from one location to another and winds blowing over the warm water transfer the heat to new locations.
500
A forest region with a heavy concentration of different specials of broadleaf trees.
What is Rainforest.
500
Explain the relationship between an ecosystem and a biome.
What is A regional ecosystem is referred to as a biome.
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