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Control Factors
Biomes
Climate Zones
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Potpouri
100
Winds that blow mainly from one direction.
What are prevailing winds?
100
This is another name for the coniferous forest.
What is Taiga?
100
This is the warmest climate zone.
What is the tropical zone?
100
Can send ash into high into the atmosphere and block out the sun.
What are volcanic eruptions?
100
This is the smallest planet in our solar system.
What is Mercury?
200
Flow through large bodies of water
What are ocean currents?
200
Have trees that lose there leaves each year.
What is a deciduous forest?
200
This is an area that has a specific climate and certain types of plants and animals.
What is a biome?
200
This is the natural phenomenon that the Milankovitch theory attempts to explain.
What are the arrival of ice ages?
200
This is the largest office building in the world.
What is the Pentagon?
300
Distance north or south of the equator
What is latitude?
300
This biome has the hottest temperatures and driest conditions on Earth.
What is the tropical desert?
300
This climate zone is found at the top and bottom of the Earth.
What are the polar zones?
300
This is the name of the super-continent that existed many millions of years ago.
What is Pangaea?
300
This country has the most populated city in the world.
What is China?
400
The names of the two largest oceans on Earth.
What are the Atlantic and Pacific?
400
This is another name for a tropical grassland.
What are savannas?
400
This is the total number of climate zones on Earth.
What is three?
400
This is the most common greenhouse gas released by fossil fuel usage.
What is carbon dioxide?
400
This is the largest lake in the world.
What is Lake Michigan?
500
These geologic formations can effect both temperature and precipitation.
What are mountains?
500
This temperate biome is a dry, mountainous area with poor topsoil, and experiences many wildfires.
What is the chapparal?
500
The climate zone where we live.
What is the temperate zone?
500
This is the most common greenhouse gas.
What is water vapor?
500
This is the age of the oldest person to have ever lived.
What is 122 years?