Weather
Weather & Climate
Climate Zones
Climate Zones 2
Climate Factors
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Temperature and Precipitation
What are the two factors measured in weather?
100
A long term average of precipitation and temperature.
What is climate?
100
This climate zone is located between 23.5 degrees north of the equator all the way to 65.5 degrees north of the equator.
What is a temperate zone?
100
A tropical subclimate zone with semi arid climate and a short we season.
What is a savannah climate zone?
100
These are lines that run east and west on a world map.
What is latitude?
200
An arrangement of lines or symbols that repeats themselves again and again.
What is a pattern?
200
A short term average of precipitation and temperature?
What is weather?
200

This climate zone is located between 0 degrees north of the equator all the way to the Tropic of Cancer.

What is a tropical zone?
200
This sub-climate zone has mild winters and very warm summers.
What is a mediterranean climate zone?
200
A location near the water will have different precipitation than one away from land.
What is proximity to water?
300
When you make statements about the future based on data.
What is a prediction.
300
An imaginary line that divides the northern hemisphere from the southern hemisphere.
What is an equator?
300

This climate zone is located between 65.5 degrees north of the equator all the way to 90 degrees north of the equator.

What is a polar zone?
300
Ths polar sub-climate zone covers areas in or near the polar regions such as Greenland.
What is an Icecap climate zone?
300
The Gulf Stream moves and contains warm water.
What is an ocean current?
400
Rain Snow Hail or Sleet
What is precipitation?
400
The imaginary line that divides the earth in half from east to west.
What is the prime meridian?
400
A temperate sub climate zone which can have so much rain that it can have temperate forests. 
What is a marine climate zone?
400
A temperate sub-climate zone which be be warm to very hot and cold to very cold. 
What is a humid continental climate?
400
As you move to high ground such as a mountain, the temperature becomes cooler.
What is altitude?
500
When water turns into a gas.

When a gas turns into a liquid.

What is evaporation?

What is condensation?

500
The location found at 90 degrees north of the equator.
What is a pole?
500
This climate zone is sub polar and can be very cold, does not have summers and sometimes has permafrost?
What is a subarctic climate zone?
500
This polar sub-climate zone has glaciers.
What is a tundra climate zone?
500
These contain air that moves from one location to another.
What is an airmass?