SS Unit 2 Review: Climate and Landforms

What is climate?

• The temperature in the air.

• The weather in a season.

• The pattern of weather in an area over a long period of time.

Name this landform.

• Plateau

• Canyon

• Volcano

• Hill

What type of climate would a tundra have?

• A tundra is hot all year long.

• A tundra is cold all year long.

• A tundra has hot summers and cold winters.

• A tundra has warm winters and cool summers.

Look at the graph. Which statement below is true based on the graph.

• The temperature in the grassland stays the same all year.

• Grasslands have less precipitation in the winter than in the summer.

• Grasslands are very dry and have no rain all year.

What can you infer about animals that live in the desert?

• They do not need a lot of water to survive.

• They are quite large animals.

Which region in South Carolina has large mountains?

• Coastal Zone

• Sandhills

• Blue Ridge

If you lived in a polar climate, how might your home and clothes be different than they are now?

• I would wear thinner clothes and not need heat in my house.

• I would need to wear more clothes to keep me warm, and my house would need to have heat all year.

• Nothing. Our climate is the same as the polar climate.

How are deserts and forests different?

• They are the exact same.

• Deserts have very few trees and little water. Forests have a lot of trees and water.

• Deserts are always hot and forests are always cold.

Look at the forest biome. Which answer bests describes a forest biome?

• Forests have very few trees and very few animals.

• Forests have a large number of plants, including a lot of trees. They also have a lot of different animals.

• Forests have a lot of sand and are very hot.

Look at the climate map. What pattern do you see?

• The climates are warmer the farther away you move from the equator.

• The climates get colder the farther away you move from the equator.

• There is no patter.