Climate zones Mr. Torres

A climate zone is

• Something on the air conditioner in my house

• An area/region that shares the same climate features

• A special defense in basketball

• Something I should have learned in Global Issues with Mr. Matt, but I was too busy updating my status on Instagram!

An imaginary line drawn around the earth equally distant from both poles, dividing the earth into northern and southern hemispheres.

• Longitudes

• Latitudes

• Equator

• Direction

What is climate?

• What's happening in space at a time and place.

• The average weather over many years

• What's happening in our atmosphere at a time and place

• The average amount of rain over many years.

Antarctica is cold all the time. What is it's climate?

• Tropical

• Arid/Dry

• Polar

• Temperate

What does temperature mean?

• How hot or cold a place is

• How much vegetation a place has

• How wet or dry a place is.

• How many global winds a place has.

____________ is the weather found in a place over a very long period of time.

• Weather

• Climate

• Rain

• Hot

_____________receives direct sunlight all year ,so temperatures are very high.

• The Tropical Zone

• The Polar Zone

• The Temperate Zone

• The Mediterranean Zone

What biome is this

• tundra

• deciduous forest

• desert

• grassland

What biome is this?

• Deciduous forest

• Rain forest

• Taiga

• Tundra

What biome is this?

• Taiga

• Desert

• Tundra

• grassland