Vocabulary
Height above sea level
What is elevation?
This major climate zone is located nearest to the north and south pole
What is polar?
The dots and line on a climograph refers to the _________ of the region
What is temperature?
A physical feature of an animal is known as a __________ adaptation
What is structural?
Temperature gets _________ when you go higher in altitude.
What is colder?
The distance of a place north or south of the Equator
What is latitude?
This major climate zone is located next to the equator
What is tropical?
The bars on a climograph refer to the _________ of a region.
What is precipitation?
An action an animal takes to survive is known as a __________ adaptation
What is behavioral?
When it is night time at the beach, the wind blows __________ the land.
What is away?
Physical features of a stretch of land
What is terrain?
This major climate zone is located halfway between the equator and the poles.
What is temperate?
If a climograph has a line that is relatively straight, the city is most likely located at ____________.
What is the equator?
Characteristics of organisms that help them survive but are not under the organism's control are known as ___________ adaptations
What is physiological?
Large bodies of water keep the temperature of a region __________.
What is mild/moderate?
Body of water or air moving in a definite direction
What is a current?
_________ climates have fewer than 10 inches of rainfall per year.
What is Desert/Arid?
A climograph with two lines tells you the _________ and __________ of a region.
What are high and low temperatures?
A _________ behavior is one that an animal is born knowing how to do
What is innate?
The most influential factor in an areas climate is its __________.
What is latitude?
When precipitation coming in from the ocean is unable to go over a mountain, causing the opposite side of the mountain to have a dry climate.
What is a rain shadow?
What is cold?
If a climograph has a line that starts high, dips down in the center, and goes back up again, it is located in the ___________ hemisphere.
What is southern?
Similar to hibernation, ________ is the process when an animal remains dormant so that it can stay cool in very hot climates
What is estivation?
Winds, such as the polar easterlies, or the prevailing westerlies, get their names from ________________.
What is "where they are coming/blowing from"?