Human-Environment
Since the late 1800s, the temperature of the earth has increased by one degree Fahrenheit and will continue to rise.
What is global warming?
A savanna is similar to__.
What is a prairie?
The pattern of such conditions as temperature and precipitation, occurring at a particular location over a long period of time.
What is climate?
Severe wind storm that is created when air flows over warm ocean waters.
What is hurricane?
An interdependent community of plants and animals.
What is ecosystem?
Weathered material is moved by the action of wind, water, ice, or gravity.
What is erosion?
The climate zone in which regions have a rainy season in summer and dry season in the winter.
What is tropical wet and dry?
Flat, treeless lands forming a ring around the Arctic Ocean are examples of _____
What is a tundra?
The condition of the atmosphere at a particular location and time.
What is weather?
Constantly frozen subsoil.
What is permafrost?
Organic materials in soil.
What is humus?
A region is categorized as being in the desert climate zone according to the ___________
What is average annual rainfall?
The two most important factors in defining different climates are__
What are temperature and precipitation?
Deadly form of weather contains a funnel-shaped column of spiraling air.
What is tornado?
Pine, fir, and other needleleaf trees.
What is coniferous?
Give two ways humans alter land to meet their needs.
Building water dam, irrigation
Long period of summer heat and humidity and mild to cool winter.
What is humid subtropical?
Three zones of latitude are__
What are tropical, mid-latitude, and high-latitude?
The land on the side of a mountain or hill that receives little precipitation due to the lack of moist air.
What is rain shadow?
The transfer of heat in the atmosphere by the upward movement of air.
What is convection?
Gases put into the atmosphere cause a warning known as greenhouse effect because they trap__.
What is solar energy?
Five basic climate regions.
What are tropical, dry, mid-latitude, high-latitutde, and tundra?
This warm ocean current helps moderate temperature in Europe.
What is North Atlantic Drift?
Water vapor, cloud cover, landforms and bodies of water, elevation, and air movement.
What cause weather?
Forests, grasslands, and deserts are examples of ____
What is biome?