Lesson 2-3

True/False: Weather means changes in temperature, wind direction and speed, and air moisture over a long period of time.

• True

• False

True/False: Climate is unpredictable patterns of weather.

• True

• False

What is unusually cool waters and little rain in the eastern Pacific describe?

• El Nino

• La Nina

Area with certain types of plants and animals is called:

• currents

• biome

• leeward

• windward

What is warm waters and very heavy rains off Western South America called?

• El Nino

• La Nina

Major patterns of movements of air:

• Trade winds

• Prevailing winds

• La Nina

• El Nino

Side of the mountain that receives little rainfall

• Leeward

• Windward

Side of mountain that receives heavy amounts of rain

• Leeward

• Winward

Streams of warm and cold water in the ocean

• La Nina

• El Nino

• trade winds

• currents

Winds that blow east to west between the Tropics and the Equator are called?

• Prevailing winds

• Trade winds

• windward

• leeward