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MOUNTAINS AND???
CLIMATE ZONES
Wind and CURRENTS
Who knows?
100
This climate type has rain forests.
What is tropical humid?
100
This happens to temperature as you go up a mountain.
What is it falls?
100
This is the coldest climate type.
What is Ice Cap?
100
The current that flows up the coast of Florida all the way to northern Europe.
What is the Gulf Stream?
100
The name for the day when the poles are farthest away from or toward the sun.
What are the solstices?
200
This climate is considered the best by many people.
What is Mediterranean?
200
Moist air rises and rains/snows because of a mountain. This occurs the this side of the mountain.
What is the windward side?
200
The zone with little precipitation.
What is arid or desert?
200
These are areas of little or no wind.
What are the doldrums?
200
The spinning of earth on its axis.
What is rotation?
300
This climate is on the edge of the arctic ocean.
What is tundra?
300
A rain shadow would be on this side of a mountain.
What is the leeward side?
300
The climate zone below the tundra which has short summers and loooong cold winters. This zone is covered in evergreen forests.
What is the subarctic?
300
These are winds that blow primarily in the same direction.
What are prevailing winds?
300
The days when neither pole is facing away from the sun.
What are the equinoxes?
400
This is why we have leap year every 4 years.
What is the earth orbit is actually 365 days and 6 hours.
400
The two middle latitude climates not affected as much by the ocean.
What are subtropical and humid continental?
400
These two climate zones are in the middle latitudes near the ocean.
What are Mediterranean and Marine West Coast?
400
This was the nickname for the parallels where the wind would die and boats would have trouble moving.
What are the horse latitudes?
400
If you are above this line, you won't see the sun at all on December 21-the first day of Winter in our hemisphere.
What is the arctic circle?
500
This is the number of degrees the earth is tilted.
What is 23.5?
500
This is the name of the process whereby moist air loses its precipitation on one side of a mountain and leaves the other side dry.
What is the orographic effect?
500
The line that is the farthest south you can go and still be considered in the tropics.
What is the tropic of Capricorn?
500
These are narrow fast moving currents of air that help move the suns energy around the planet.
What is the jet stream?
500
This is the gas scientist worry is causing our planet to warm too much?
What is carbon dioxide?