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?