Definitions
The daily temperature, air quality, and potential precipitation for a specific area.
The two weather conditions that determine climate regions when measured over time.
What is temperature and precipitation?
The average temperature is shown using this type of graph.
What is a line graph?
The invisible line that cuts the earth into two hemispheres.
What is the equator?
As you move closer to the equator, temperatures get ________.
What is higher/hotter?
The overall pattern of weather for a given area over a long period of time.
What is climate?
The climate region with hot temperatures and with rain all year.
What is the tropical climate region?
The average monthly precipitation is created with this type of graph.
What is a bar graph?
This heats up more slowly and loses heat more slowly than land.
What is water?
As elevation increases, temperatures become ______.
What is COOLER?
What is a climate graph?
A climate region that has low precipitation and very high temperatures.
What is an arid climate region?
On a climate graph, this region would have very cold temperatures and little precipitation.
What is a location near to the poles?
These move energy (hot and cool air) around the Earth.
What is wind?
What is COOL/COLD?
These are areas on the Earth that have similar climate characteristics or properties.
What is a climate region?
A climate region that is very cold, but also very dry.
What is the polar climate region?
Places nearby this type of resource would experience milder temperatures and have lots of moisture in the air.
What are oceans (or large bodies of water)?
The vertical distance from sea level.
What is altitude/elevation?
The maritime regions experience ________ temperatures.
What is MILD/MODERATE?
This astronomical force is responsible for creating the different climate patterns around the world.
What is the sun's energy?
A climate region with grasslands, moderate temperatures, and a mix of rainfall and dry periods.
What is a temperate climate region?
What is opposite?
What is distance measured north to south from the equator that helps determine a location on Earth?
What is latitude?
The continental regions experience _________ temperatures.
What is EXTREME?