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Vocabulary
Biomes
Climate
Climate Change
Toss Up
100
This is the short-term state of the atmosphere
What is weather?
100
This biome is very, very dry and very, very hot
What is the tropical desert?
100
These are the two main factors that determine climate
What are temperature and precipitation?
100
This climate change factor throw dust, ash, and smoke into the air and blocks the sun
What is a volcanic eruption?
100
Besides the Tundra, this is the other polar biome
What is the Taiga?
200
This is the height of an object above sea level
What is elevation?
200
This biome has the most fertile soil in the world
What is the temperate grassland?
200
These are the three climate zones of the Earth
What are tropical, temperate, and polar?
200
This climate change factor involves something from outer space hitting the Earth
What is an asteroid impact?
200
This is what happens to the sun's rays near the North or South Pole
What is they hit the Earth less directly?
300
This is the climate of a small area
What is a microclimate?
300
This biome is so cold there is a layer of permafrost
What is the tundra?
300
This other factor has to do with how far north or south you are from the equator
What is latitude?
300
This has to do with an 11-year time frame
What is the sun's cycle?
300
This is the season North America is having when Australia is having Fall
What is Spring?
400
This is a long period of climate cooling during which sheets of ice cover the Earth
What is an ice age?
400
This biome receives so much rainfall the soil is poor in nutrients
What is the tropical rain forest?
400
This factor has a wet side and a dry side
What are mountains?
400
This involves the average temperature of the Earth rising gradually
What is global warming?
400
This is what happens when warm air cools
What is it sinks, loses the ability to hold water vapor, and causes precipitation?
500
This is a large region characterized by a specific type of climate and certain types of plant and animal communities
What is a biome?
500
This biome has cold winters, hot summers and small trees and shrubs
What is the chapparal?
500
This factor deals with a certain thing moving over land or over water that could make an area warm and moist or cold and dry
What are prevailing winds?
500
This involves the idea that the Earth changes its tilt and orbit
What is Milankovitch theory?
500
These are the nine biomes we studied this chapter
What is tropical rain forest, tropical savanna, tropical desert, tempertate forest, temperate grassland, chapparal, temperate desert, tundra, taiga?