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Weather Versus Climate
Q What is the difference between weather and climate?
A Weather is the temp. and precipitation from day to day. Climate is a region’s average weather over a long period.
Q What creates wind?
A When air warms, it gets lighter and rises, cooler air moves in to take its place.
Q What affects the amount of sun at any given location on the Earth?
A Earth’s tilt, movement, shape.
Q What moves warmth around the Earth?
A Wind and Water
Q What is the warm current that flows along the East Coast of the United States?
A Gulf Stream. (Think of Gulf of Mexico.)
Q What is a place where two different air masses meet? (Prepare for a storm)
A Front
World Climate
Q What are three ways in which geographers identify a climate? (Remember table we filled out.)
A Temperature, Precipitation, and plant life from that area.
Q What are the 5 climate zones? (Beware of tickling tiny dragons)
A Tropical, dry, temperate, polar, highland.
Q Which climate zone is found in low latitude? High latitude? Middle latitude?
A Tropical = low Polar = high Temperate = Middle
Q What do we find at about 30 degrees North and South latitude?
A Most of the world’s deserts.
Q Which type of climate zone offers the four seasons?
A Temperate (mild)
Q What are two dry climate regions?
A Desert and Steppe
Q Short grasses are the most common plants of what climate region?
ASteppe
Q Winds that shift directions with the seasons and create wet and dry periods
A Monsoon
Q Permanently frozen layers of soil
A Permafrost
Q Type of climate that occurs in coastal areas along the Arctic Ocean
A tundra
Natural Environment
Q Loss of soil fertility and plant life is called?
A Desertification
Q What do you call a group of plants and animals that depend on each other for survival and they
environment in which they live?
A Ecosystem.
Q What is one thing soil needs to support abundant plant life.
A Minerals and Humus.
Q The place where a plant or animal lives (such as a tropical rainforest)
A habitat
Natural Resources
Q What are two examples of renewable resources?
A Water, soil, trees, plants, animals.
Q What is a disadvantage of nuclear power?
A It produces dangerous waste.
Q What is a disadvantage of wind power?
A The wind isn’t always blowing.
Q What are two renewable energy resources?
A Hydroelectric, solar, wind, geothermal, nuclear.
Q Anything in nature that humans use and value
A Natural Resource