Climate Factors
The amount of climate factors we discussed in class.
What is 6?
Areas of Earth identified as having similar climate characteristics.
What is a climate region?
An important part of every landscape. Humans can use it for medicine, building, weapons and food.
What is natural vegetation?
The area at the mouth of a river that resembles a triangle shape.
What is a delta?
A large hill that has sides much steeper than the surrounding surfaces.
What is a mountain?
The height above a specific level. Normally this level is sea level, but it depends on the circumstance.
What is elevation?
Savannah, Steppe, Desert, Mild/Temperate, Continental, Subarctic, Polar, Mountainous, Tropical
What are climate regions?
T or F: Grasslands and forests around the world are shrinking.
What is true?
The water source for many rivers.
What is the top of a mountain?
A piece of land surrounded by water on all sides.
What is an island?
The area closest to this will often have their climate moderated by water. Inland areas do not have this advantage.
What is Bodies of Water?
T or F: Steppe is an in-land region and it is heavily affected by ocean currents.
What is false?
This vegetation region is flat, grassy, and open. This vegetation region is found on all continents, except Antarctica. The climate of the region will change the vegetation that grows there.
What is the grasslands?
What is created when there is a mix of hard and soft rock under a heavy water stream.
What is a waterfall?
Natural features of the earths surface - can include mountains, valleys, plateaus, volcanos, desert, delta, island.
What are landforms?
Warm _______ start near the equator and as they move away (towards the poles) they become colder.
What are ocean currents?
T or F: Plateaus and level plains make up the bulk of the African Savannah.
What is true?
This vegetation region has cold winters and short seasons. It makes it difficult for trees to grow in this region. The vegetation is grasses, shrubs, and mosses. There are two types of this region: arctic (bare landscape and mostly frozen) and alpine (cold, snowy, and windy).
What is the tundra?
It was used as a transportation method for the First Nations peoples and the European explorers who came to Canada.
What is the St.Lawrence River?
Mesas and Buttes are types of _____.
What are plateaus?
The overall long term dominate weather conditions of a specific area.
What is Climate?
The climate region we live in.
Continental
To enjoy nature with low impact to the environment, promote conservation, and benefit the local people.
What is ecotourism?
In North America there are five.
What is a drainage basin?
The solid part of the Earth.
What is the geosphere?