An usual, predictable pattern of weather in an area over a long period of time.
What is Climate?
200
Water that falls back to the earth as rain, snow, sleet, or hail.
What is Precipitation?
200
An underground rock layer that water flows through.
What is an Aquifer?
200
A pattern of wind caused by landforms in a particular area.
What is Local Wind?
200
A dense forest that receives high amounts of rain each year.
What is the Rainforest?
200
A weather pattern characterized by hot, humid, rainy summers and short, mild winters.
What is Humid Subtropical Climate?
300
The process in which the sun's heat turns liquid water into water vapor.
What is Evaporation?
300
Moving streams of water in the world's oceans.
What are Currents?
300
Dry area on the inland side of coastal mountains.
What is a Rain Shadow?
300
A weather pattern characterized by severly cold, bitter winters and short, cool summers.
What is the Subarctic?
300
A weather pattern characterized by rainy and mild winters and cool summers.
What is Marine West Coast Climate?
400
The process in which air rises and cools, which makes the water vapor it holds change back into liquid.
What is Condensation?
400
The water that fills tiny cracks and holes in the rock layers below the earth's surface.
What is Groundwater?
400
The unpredictable changes in air that take place over a short period of time.
What is Weather?
400
The low-latitude region between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn.
What is the Tropics?
400
A weather pattern characterized by long, cold, snowy winters and short, hot summers.
What is Humid Continental Climate?
500
The process in which water moves from the oceans to the air to the ground and finally back to the oceans.
What is the Water Cycle?
500
The process in the water cycle during which streams and rivers carry water back to the oceans.
What is Collection?
500
Two Patterns of Unusual Weather:
One is a combination of temperature, wind and water effects int he Pacific Ocean that causes heavy rains in some areas and drought in others.The other has the opposite effect.
What is El Nino & La Nina?
500
A vast rolling treeless plain in high latitude climates in which only the top few inches of ground thaw in summer.
What is the Tundra?
500
A weather pattern characterized by mild, rainy winters and cool summers.