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Climate Regions
Seasons
Factors That Affect Weather and Climate
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Air
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The dry climates in the US
What are semiarid and arid?
100
4 seasons
How many seasons are there?
100
The distance away from the equator
What is latitude?
100
Bitter cold and hold large mammals
What are continental climates like?
100
air moves up and down creating winds
How does air pressure affect wind?
200
Mediterranean, marine west coast, and humid subtropical
What are the temperate marine climates?
200
Summer, Winter, Fall, Spring
what are the four seasons?
200
The plants that affect climate
What is vegetation?
200
Marine west coasts are influenced by the ocean
How are marine west coasts like?
200
Air that isn't pressing down so hard on a surface
What is low pressure?
300
Humid continental
What is climate that has hot, humid summers and cold winters, with moderate precipitation year round?
300
23.5 tilt
What causes seasons?
300
The side of incoming wind
What is windward?
300
Sea breezes cary more wetter air than land breezes
What is the difference between land breezes and sea?
300
Air that is pushing down harder on a surface
What is high air pressure?
400
Highlands
What is generally cooler and wetter than nearby lowlands; temperature decreased with altitude?
400
June and December
What are the months when the solstices occur?
400
The side of the mountain that is in a rain shadow
What is leeward?
400
Very moist winds
What are sea breezes?
400
Mercury barometers are used for measuring air pressure
What is a mercury barometer used for?
500
6 climate regions
How many climate regions are there?
500
Equinox
What is the time of year when the days are the same length?
500
Things that affect climate that are geographical features
What are vegetation and water bodies?
500
Sea, land, mountain, and valley breezes
What are four types of breezes?
500
Air masses go from west to east
How do air masses move?