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Vocabulary
Weather
Climate
Storms
Weather in Biomes
100
Where two different air masses meet.
What is a front?
100
The state of the atmosphere at a certain place and time.
What is weather?
100
The average weather pattern over a region.
What is climate?
100
Spinning cloud with a funnel shape.
What is a tornado?
100
This biome has four changing seasons including winter, spring, summer, and fall. ... This precipitation falls throughout the year, but in the winter it falls as snow.
What is a temperate deciduous forests?
200
The envelope of gases surrounding the earth or another planet.
What is the atmosphere?
200
The three ingredients of weather.
What are air, water, and heat/temperature?
200
A change in global or regional climate patterns.
What is climate change?
200
Large, powerful storm that occurs over large bodies of water.
What is a hurricane?
200
This dry and hot barren only gets at most 10" of rain per year.
What is the desert?
300
A large region of the atmosphere in which the air has similar properties throughout.
What is an air mass?
300
When warm air moves in over a cold air mass and brings light steady rain or snow.
What is a warm front?
300
The two main factors that determine the climate.
What are temperature and precipitation?
300
Water overflow that is caused by a large amount of rainfall.
What is a flood?
300
Have hot summers and cold winters. Summer temperatures can be well over 100 degrees Fahrenheit, while winter temperatures can be as low as -40 degrees Fahrenheit. They typically have between 10 and 35 inches of precipitation a year, much of it occurring in the late spring and early summer.
What is a temperate grassland?
400
The force exerted on a given area by the weight of the air above it.
What is air pressure?
400
The location/atmosphere where weather occurs.
What is the troposphere?
400
A gradual increase in the overall temperature of the earth's atmosphere generally attributed to the greenhouse effect caused by increased levels of carbon dioxide, chlorofluorocarbons, and other pollutants.
What is global warming?
400
The sound lightening makes when it heats the air.
What is thunder?
400
The average temperature is 10 to 20 degrees Fahrenheit (-12 to -6 degrees Celsius), supports a variety of animal species, including Arctic foxes, polar bears, gray wolves, caribou, snow geese and musk-oxen. The summer growing season is just 50 to 60 days, when the sun shines 24 hours a day.
What is the arctic tundra?
500
The Earth's rotation pushes the winds to either the right or the left.
What is the Coriolis Effect?
500
These winds blow in the United States blow from West to East.
What is a prevailing wind?
500
Causes different climates on Earth.
Why is the Earth tilted on its axis so as it turns, different parts of the Earth gets direct sunlight. Therefore, the Equator always gets direct sunlight, and the poles do not get direct sunlight.
500
A severe snowstorm with high winds and low visibility.
What is a blizzard?
500
plays a leading role in the Earth's climate. ... Hurricanes originate over the tropical regions here under conditions where high humidity, light winds, and warm sea surface temperatures combine.
What is the ocean?