World Climates

What is the name given to the area located between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn?

• Mid latitude

  Temperate

• High Latitude

  Polar

• Low latitude

  Tropics

In the mountainous areas, climate and vegetation are affected by

• Altitude or Elevation

• Latitude

• Longitude

• The sun

Which of the following is a factor that DOES NOT impact the climate of a place?

• Latitude

• Altitude

• Current

• longitude

The Atacama Desert was created by the Andes Mountains. This is called a?

• Rainbow

• Rain Shadow

• Sun Shadow

• Desert

Which Biome includes call the Following?

·     Permafrost

·     Long, cold winters

·     Short, cool summers

·     The summer growing season is 50-60 days long

·     Vegetation – low lying grasses, mosses, shrubs, no trees

• Tropical grasslands

• Rainforests

• The Taiga

• Tundra

Which Biome is being described?

·     Cacti 

·     Very low unreliable rainfall, or no rainfall, dry

·     Low population density

·     Can be created by a rain shadow

• Savanna

• Deciduous forest

• desert

• taiga

_____ Is the distance east or west of the Prime Meridian

• Equator

• Longitude

• Latitude

• Northern Hemisphere

_____ is the distance north and south of the Equator.

• Prime Merdian

• Longitude

• Latitude

• Time Zones

The name for plant growth in an area.

• Crops

• Plants

• Forests

• Vegetation

_____ Occurs when plants and animals adjust to the rainforest

• Getting comfortable

• Adaptation

• Preciptation

• participation