Part 3 Climate and Weather Review

In the _________________ latitudes, the climate is almost always tropical or hot.

• Polar

• Low

• Middle

• High

The salt water in the oceans helps provide our necessary fresh water through ________________________, or rising water vapor, as part of the water cycle.

• Collection

• Precipitation

• Condensation

• Evaporation

The average weather pattern over a long period of time is a place’s ______________.

• Climate

• Weather

• Ecosystem

• Altitude

____________________ is the measure in degrees of how hot or cold the air is.

• Precipitation

• Evaporation

• Temperature

• Weather

Latitude, altitude, and oceans are factors that affect a location’s ___________________.

• Ecosystem

• Precipitation

• Temperature

• Climate

At the polar zones, they receive the least amount of direct sunlight making the climate always _____________________.

• Cold

• Seasonal

• Hot

• Wet

The regions between the Antarctic Circle and the Tropic of Capricorn and the Arctic Circle and the Tropic of Cancer where the climate is seasonal is the called the ___________ latitudes.

• High

• Middle

• Low

• Tropics

A ______________________ is a type of storm between the Tropic lines of latitude that forms over the Atlantic Ocean.

• Blizzard

• Hurricane

• Typhoon

• Cyclone

_________________________ is a group of plants and animals that depend on each other and their environment for survival.

• Temperature

• Precipitation

• Climate

• Ecosystem

________________________ and other large bodies of water affect Earth’s climates because water cools or heats more slowly than air.

• Latitude

• Altitude

• Great Plains

• Oceans