Climate Zones
The Physical World
Earth Sun Relationships
Plates, Layers, and More
Biomes and Maps
100

This type of climate can also be found in parts of the world away from the French Riviera. It has mild, rainy winters and hot and dry summers along coastal midlatitude areas. 

What is Mediterranean?

100

This sphere is made up of all the earth's water.

What is the hydrosphere?

100

This major change in factors that measure climate over a long period of time has been a HOT topic lately. 

What is climate change? 

100

The thickness (not the thiccness) of the earth's crust at it's shallowest point to the thickest (thicc-est) in miles. 

What is 2 to 75 miles?

100

Common in parts of Africa, this type of biome can also be found in Australia...and no, it's not the same city in coastal Georgia. 

What is a savanna

200

Freezing is common all year long in high-latitude climates. The amount and variety of vegetation is limited because of this...or lack thereof. 

What is direct sunlight?

200

Even though Mt. Everest is high up in the sky it truly belongs to this sphere of the earth. 

What is the lithosphere?

200

Twice a year direct sunlight falls on the equator. Need a hint? Think of a trendy Chevy SUV...

What is an equinox? 

200

The layers of the earth can be thought of as what kind of an egg? 

What is a hard boiled egg.

200

Scientists say that 1/2 of the earth's plant and animal species lives in this type of biome. 

What are tropical rain forests?

300

The two most common types of dry climates are the arid "this type" and semi-arid "this type"

What are steppes and deserts?

300

What a meteoroid is called when it enters the earth's atmosphere and vaporizes

What is a meteor? 

300

Earth has 4 season, 24 hours and 365 days. What factors contribute to all of these?

What are rotations, revolutions, and the axis tilt? 
300

Ignore The Rock and that cheesy movie. The San Andreas fault is one of the most famous in the world. What causes faults to form?

When the earth's crust can't handle anymore pressure or stress...or cannot bend it cracks and forms a fault line. 

300

Even though New Orleans is dry (most of the time) this type of biome can be found throughout southern Louisiana. 

What are wetlands?

What is a wetland?

400

Because of climate change this always frozen soil is beginning to thaw in the colder regions of the world. 

What is permafrost 

400

This "peaceful" ocean.

What is the pacific?

400

Without this natural process the earth would be too hot or too cold to support life....like Goldilocks, this process has to be juuuusssttt right.

What is the greenhouse effect. 

400

This effect causes prevailing winds to blow in a diagonal spinning direction. 

Have you looked at the way a hurricane spins?

What is the Coriolis Effect?

400

In terms of location.....

6363 St Charles Ave, New Orleans, LA 70118

What is absolute location? 

500
In Louisiana we have this type of climate.

What is Humid Subtropical?

500

We find this running through the merry place of Greenwich, England...or 0º longitude. 

What is the Prime Meridian?

500

One measures typical meteorological patterns over a short time, and the other looks at atmospherical conditions over a long time. 

What are weather and climate?

500

This pattern can determine the potential impact of weather patterns like hurricanes in the North Atlantic. 

What is El Nino?

500

This continent

What is Asia?