Climate Causes
Vocabulary
5 Themes
Grid System
Climate Regions
100

This happens to the temperature closer to the Equator

It increases

100
When the environment dictates human behavior

Environmental determinism 

100

Exact point of a place on a map

Absolute location
100

Zero degrees latitude

The equator

100

Hot and dry year around

Arid

200

Climate is

weather over a long period of time

200

View that acknowledges limits of the effects of the natural environment and focuses on the role that human culture plays

Possibilism 

200

An area that has common characteristics 

Region

200

23.5 degrees north

Tropic of Cancer

200

Hot temperatures with a wet and dry season

Humid wet dry

300

Higher elevation causes temperatures to

decrease
300

Names of places

Toponyms 

300

Interaction through travel, trade, communication

Movement

300

66.5 degrees south

Antarctic Circle

300

70 degrees and sunny

Mediterranean

400

Being close to water causes temperatures to

be more constant

400

The number of something in an area

Density

400

Physical and human characteristics

Place

400

City at zero degrees longitude

Prime Meridian

400

Four seasons

Humid Continental

500

This side of a mountain is dry

Leeward

500

Inverse relationship between distance and connection

Distance decay

500

Human-environment interaction

Human adapt to, modify, and depend on the environment

500

180 degrees west and east of the Prime Meridian

International Date Line
500

Cloudy, mild summers and cool, rainy winters with abundant rain

Marine west coast