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Vocabulary
Climate Zones
Climate Descriptions
Climate Groups
Where Do I Belong
100
Funnel shaped windstorm.
What is a tornado?
100
Year round rains produce lush and thick vegetation.
What is Tropical Rain Forest?
100
Describe a highland climate zone.
What is contains mountains, timberline or high elevation?
100
Name both of the tropical climate zones?
What is Tropical Rain Forest and Tropical Savanna?
100
Mediterranean, Marine West Coast, Humid Continental and Humid Subtropical.
What is Mid Latitudes
200
Build up of gases in the atmosphere that causes the earth to warm.
What is Greenhouse effect?
200
Less than 10 inches of rain per year.
What is desert?
200
Describe a steppe climate zone.
What is treeless plain that surrounds deserts,dry ,10-20 in. of rain a year?
200
This climate is very dry and usually hot.
What is Dry Climate? (desert, steppe)
200
Tropical Savanna and Tropical Rain Forest.
What is Tropics?
300
Tremendous seasonal winds that blow over a continent for months at a time.
What is Monsoon?
300
Broad grasslands with a specific wet and dry season.
What is Tropical Savanna?
300
Describe a subarctic climate zone.
What is huge evergreen forests called tiagas?
300
This climate group is from the tropics to 60 degrees N and S.
What is Mid Latitude?
300
Mountains and areas of high elevation.
What is Highlands?
400
Usual, predictable pattern of weather over a long period of time.
What is climate?
400
Harsh winters, short hot summers,contains Pennsylvania.
What is Humid Continental?
400
Describe a humid subtropical climate zone.
What is heavy rain in the hot humid summer months?
400
This climate group is from 23 1/2 N to 23 1/2 S.
What is Tropical Climates?
400
Deserts and Steppes.
What is Dry Climate?
500
Unpredictable changes in the air over a short period of time.
What is weather?
500
Mild rainy winters with cool summers.
What is Marine West Coast.?
500
Describe an ice cap climate zone.
What is North and South poles, only lichens grow here?
500
This climate group is from 60 degrees N and S to the poles.
What is High Latitudes?
500
Subartic, Ice Cap, Tundra.
What is High Latitudes?