Geography Unit 3

__________ is what you expect

• climate

• weather

• hot sauce

• monsoons

_______ is what you get

• weather

• climate

• permafrost

• hydroelectric power

Today it is 59 and cloudy.

• weather

• climate

• prevailing winds

• ocean currents

short term changes in the air for a given place and time; weather is the temperature and precipitation from hour to hour and day to day

• climate

• weather

• monsoon

• storm

region’s average weather conditions over a long period; the expected weather for a place based on data and experience

• weather

• climate

• prevailing winds

• deforestation

winds that blow in the same direction over large areas of the earth

• prevailing winds

• front

• ocean currents

• fossil fuel

large streams of surface seawater (driven by wind) that move heat around the Earth

• ocean current

• hydroelectric power

• desertification

• permafrost

the place where two air masses of different temperatures or moisture content meets

• front

• renewable resources

• natural resources

• ecosystem

seasonal winds that bring either dry or moist air and create an extreme wet season

• monsoons

• deforestation

• non-renewable resources

• prevailing winds

permanently frozen layers of soil; frozen earth absorbs water poorly, creating ponds and marshes in the summer.

• permafrost

• fossil fuel

• climate

• weather