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Vocabulary
Types of Climates
Weather and Climate
The Water Cycle
Ecosystems
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___________________refers to an area's temperature and level of precipitation over a long period of time.
What is Climate
100
What climate type is typically hot all year?
What is tropical?
100
When the weather patterns that an area typically experiences over a long period of time.
What is Climate?
100
This is the term for all forms of water that fall from the atmosphere onto the earth's surface.
What is precipitation?
100
What are types of ecosystems that can be found in various regions throughout the world?
What is a biome?
200

Global air patterns form as heated air rises and cooled air falls.  At the same time, air at the surface is also blowing toward the east or west.

What is prevailing winds?

200

This type of climate has cold summers and very cold winters.

What is Polar, Tundra or Ice Cap.

200

These climates are wet year-around, with mild winters and cool summers. They exist where moist winds blow offshore.

What is maritime climate type?

200

AS it cools, the water vapor condenses, or changes back into a liquid and millions of tiny drops form into clouds

What is condensation?

200
The dominant trees in the forests of the middle latitudes are _____________.
What is deciduous?
300

A tropical rain forest is one type of _______________.

What is biome?

300
____________________ is a rise in the earth's temperature.
What is Global Warming?
300
This is what is expected: _________________ and this is what you get: __________________.
What is climate; weather.
300
This occurs when hot, humid air rises from the earth's surface and cools.
What is convectional precipitation.
300

_____________ is a network of __________ and ________ that depend on each other and their environment for survival.

What is an ecosystem and what are plants and animals?

400

The interaction of plant life, animal life, and the physical environment in which they live is an ___________________________.

What is an ecosystem?

400
Increasing amounts of _____________________ can lead to what scientist's call global warming.
What is carbon dioxide?
400

These type of climate (three) includes warm weathers?

What is tropical wet, tropical dry and humid subtropical climates?

400
What are the two major factors affecting weather and climate?
What is temperature and precipitation?
400

What ecosystems usually supports thick forests of deciduous trees?

What are savannas?

500

The _________________ or the low latitudes, are the areas between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn. The sun is overhead (or nearly overhead) ALL year long.

What are the tropics?

500
Identify the five broad types of climate regions:
What is tropical, dry, moderate, continental and polar.
500

This is an intense rainstorm with strong winds that forms over oceans in the tropics.

What is a tropical cyclone?

500
Starting with precipitation, what are the following three main steps of the water cycle?
What is surface runoff, evaporation, condensation.
500

__________________ can seep into the ground or lakes, and oceans.

What is precipitation or collection?