An area with warm, dry summers and cold, wet winters.
What is a temperate climate?
100
A plant that requires a great deal of water and sunlight would grow best in which climate?
What is tropical climate?
100
Name three types of precipitation.
What is snow, sleet, hail, rain?
200
Any form of precipitation that falls from clouds.
What is precipitation?
200
The blanket of air that surrounds Earth.
What is the atmosphere?
200
A place that has very cold temperatures year round.
What is a polar climate?
200
The higher you travel up a mountain, the colder it gets. The top of a mountain may be very cold, and receive snow because of its _______, while the base of the mountain is very warm.
What is altitude?
200
This measures wind speed.
What is anemometer?
300
The change of state from gas to liquid.
What is condensation?
300
The place where two air masses meet.
What is a front?
300
A place that has a very hot and rainy climate.
What is a tropical climate?
300
What type of climate do we live in? Explain
What is temperate climate, because we have warm summers and cold winters.
300
This measures air pressure.
What is a barometer?
400
The movement of water into the atmosphere as water vapor and back to Earth's surface as precipitation.
What is the water cycle?
400
The conditions of the atmosphere at a certain place and time.
What is weather?
400
Pushes cold air down, resulting in layers of gray clouds and steady precipitation.
What is warm front?
400
Plants and animals rely on each other for gases each needs to breathe. Explain why this is so.
Plants take in carbon dioxide from the air and give off oxygen into the air. Animals take in oxygen and give off carbon dioxide.
400
This measures the amount of precipitation.
What is a rain gauge?
500
The water cycle is a great way for Earth to _____________ water.
What is recycle?
500
The AVERAGE weather conditions in an area over a long period of time.