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10 equal length day and night on or about March 21 or September 22 What is ….an equinox? Click here for answer back
20 The day the sun’s rays shine directly overhead at noon at the tropics. In the Northern Hemisphere, it’s the longest day of the year in June and in December the shortest day back Click here for answer What is ….a solstice?
30 The date of the Autumnal Equinox in the Northern Hemisphere back Click here for answer What is ….September 22?
40 The parallel marked 23.5 degrees south latitude back Click here for answer What is ….the Tropic of Capricorn?
10 The condition of the atmosphere at a particular location and time. back Click here for answer What is ….weather?
20 Falling water droplets in the form of rain, sleet, snow or hail back Click here for answer What is ….precipitation?
30 In Orographic Precipitation the leeward side of a mountain or hill that gets little rain because of descending dry air back Click here for answer What is ….the rain shadow
40 The boundary between two air masses of different temperatures or density back Click here for answer What is …. a weather front?
10 Weather conditions at a particular location over a long period of time back Click here for answer What is ….climate?
20 Wind and ocean currents help distribute the sun’s heat from one part of the world to another by the transfer of heat in the atmosphere by upward motion of air back Click here for answer What is ….convection?
30 …like rivers in the ocean, moving in large circular systems back Click here for answer What is ….an ocean current?
40 A natural change in the climate. When prevailing easterly winds that blow over the central pacific ocean slow or change direction, thus changing the ocean temperature and affecting weather worldwide, or the warming of the waters off the west coast of South America back Click here for answer What is ….El Nino?
10 the two basic factors affecting climate back Click here for answer What are ….temperature & precipitation?
20 This climate sub-region, which is located close to the ocean, is frequently cloudy, foggy and damp back Click here for answer What is ….Marine West Coast?
30 A great variety in temperature and precipitation characterizes this climate, which is found in the mid-latitude interiors of Northern Hemisphere continents back Click here for answer What is ….Humid Continental?
40 The flat, treeless lands forming a ring around the Arctic Ocean – Very little precipitation falls here, usually less than 15 inches per year, hence it is also a climate sub-region back Click here for answer What is ….tundra?
10 A thin layer of weathered rock, humus, air, and water, the world’s food supply depends greatly on the top six inches back Click here for answer What is ….soil?
20 An interdependent community of plants and animals back Click here for answer What is ….an ecosystem?
30 Needle-leaf trees that are cone bearing and generally have soft wood back Click here for answer What are ….coniferous?
40 The term, not prairie, that is used to identify temperate grasslands in the Northern Hemisphere back Click here for answer What is ….steppe