Extreme Heat and Cold
Vocabulary
Mixed
Wildlife Habitat
100

In this place temperatures rise to 120 degrees

What is Death Valley

100

Only active at night

What is nocturnal

100

State with a tropical climate

What is Hawaii?

100

Jackrabbit, fringe-toed lizard, rattlesnake (area)

What are animals that live in the desert?

200

State with most extreme winter temperatures.

What is Alaska?

200

The disguising or blending in with one's surroundings

What is camouflage?

200

Warm temperatures in summer, cool temperatures in winter

What is a moderate climate?

200

Dolphins, nene, monk seals   (state)

What is Hawaii?

300

Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, and parts of Washington

What are places with heavy snows and freezing rain?

300

A level, frozen area in the far north where temperatures are so cold that trees cannot grow.

What is tundra?

300

The mountain range that affects the amount of precipitation that falls nearby

What is the Cascade Range?

300

Two animals that have adapted to Alaska and Hawaii.

What are whales and sharks?

400

Trees cannot grow here because temperatures are too cold.

What is the Alaskan tundra?

400

To amaze or have an impact

What is impress?

400

The side of the Cascades that lies in the rain shadow.

What is the eastern side?

400

Walruses, snowy owls, puffins, and tundra swans (state)

What is Alaska?

500

Hottest temperature ever recorded on Earth

What is 134 degrees F

500

An area such as the side of a mountain that receives less precipitation than the other side.

What is the rain shadow?

500

Two extreme examples of rainfall

What are Death Valley which had 2 years of no rain and Mount Waialeale in Hawaii which has 450 inches of rain in an average year.

500

NENE spotted here

What is Hawaii Volcanoes National Park?