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This climate factor that affects the temperature of an area is the distance north or south of the equator.
What is latitude?
100
When the Earth is tilted toward the sun in the northern hemisphere, it is ___________________.
What is summer?
100
Line of latitude that divides Earth into Northern and Southern Hemispheres, and receives the most direct sunlight year-round.
What is the equator?
100
Climate depends on
What is location?
100
The condition of the air and sky from day to day on Earth.
What is weather?
200
Another name for the high latitudes
What is polar?
200
Earth's seasons are caused by __________ .
What are the tilt of Earth's axis as it revolves around the sun?
200
23.5 degrees north is called __________ .
What is the Tropic of Cancer?
200
Two things that spread heat around Earth.
What are air and water?
200
The average year-to-year weather in an area.
What is climate?
300
Land near oceans have _____________ temperatures.
What is mild?
300
Two days of the year that mark the beginning of spring and fall when daylight and night time are equal in length.
What is the equinox?
300
Precipitation in liquid form.
What is rain?
300
Take longer to heat up and cool down than land.
What are oceans?
300
Frozen precipitation
What are hail, sleet, and snow?
400
These move across great distances in the ocean and are like rivers. The Gulf Stream is an example of one.
What are ocean currents?
400
The day that marks the beginning of summer when daylight hours in the Northern Hemisphere are the longest of the year.
What is the summer solstice?
400
This is an imaginary line through Earth between the North and South poles, around which Earth turns.
What is Earth's axis?
400
In which latitude climate zone is most of the United States located?
What are the middle latitudes?
400
How hot or cold the air is
What is temperature?
500
4 seasons climates are found in these latitude zones
What are middle or temperate latitudes?
500
When the Earth is tilted away from the sun in the northern hemisphere, it is ___________.
What is winter?
500
This is a warm ocean current.
What is the Gulf Stream?
500
Land near oceans has this type of climate.
What is mild?
500
A tropical cyclone that occurs over the Atlantic Ocean
What is a hurricane?