Weather & Climate
What is the condition of the atmosphere at a particular time and place?
What is weather?
Which line of latitude divides Earth into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres?
What is the Equator?
Which biome is usually hot, very dry, and receives little rainfall?
What is a desert?
What is the average weather conditions of a place over a long period?
What is climate?
Which line of latitude is located approximately 23.5 degrees North of the Equator?
What is the Tropic of Cancer?
What cactus adaptation helps it survive in the desert?
What is a thick stem that stores water?
This describes the atmosphere over many years?
What is climate?
Which line of latitude is located approximately 23.5 degrees South of the Equator?
What is the Tropic of Capricorn?
Many desert animals survive by being active during this time?
What is nighttime?
Weather is measured at a specific ________ and ________?
What are time and place?
The Equator separates these two hemispheres?
What are the Northern and Southern Hemispheres?
What plant feature helps rainforest plants collect sunlight beneath a thick canopy?
What are large leaves?
What is an ecosystem?
Name the two lines of latitude that mark approximately 23.5 degrees north and south of the Equator?
What are the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn?
What is an ecosystem?
What are living and nonliving things interacting in an area?