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The condition of the air and sky at a certain time
What is temperature
100
The areas of the earth that receive different amount of heat from the sun are called zones of ______________.
What is latitude
100
The movement of water from Earth's surface into the atmosphere and back
What is the water cycle
100
Warm air is lighter than cool air so it ___________
What is rises
100
The continent with the coldest temperature ever recorded
What is Antarctica
200
A measure of how hot or cold the air is
What is temperature
200
The two names for areas north of the Arctic Circle and south of the Antarctic Circle
What are the polar zones or high latitudes
200
The sun heats up water, causing it to ____________
What is evaporate
200
Where does the hot air that rises at the equator sink?
What are the Tropic of Cancer and Capricorn
200
The country where the hottest temperature ever was recorded
What is the United States
300
Water that falls from the sky as rain, hail, sleet or snow.
What is precipitation
300
The names of the two imaginary lines that separate the middle from low latitudes.
What are the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn
300
The force that moves warm surface water from the tropics toward the poles
What is wind
300
A disastrous event that occurs when cold and hot air mix over the tropics
What is a hurricane, cyclone or typhoon
300
A swirling funnel of wind that can reach 320 km per hour.
What is a tornado
400
A combination of the average temperature and precipitation over many years.
What is climate
400
Another name for area of low latitudes
What is the tropics
400
The temperature of deep water currents is ___________ and its density is caused by ___________
What are cold and salt
400
The area of rising air near the equator
What is the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ)
400
The area in the middle of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans where cold and warm currents meet one another and form a spiral
What is a gyre
500
A climate graph contains both a line and bars. What do each represent?
The bars represent precipitation and the line represents temperature.
500
Another name for the areas of middle latitudes
What is the temperate zones
500
The ocean current that makes Spain warmer than New York despite being at a similar latitude
What is the Gulf Stream
500
The name of the hurricane that decimated New Orleans in 2005
What is Hurricane Katrina
500
The zone of latitude with the highest precipitation
What is the tropics