CLIMATES

What is the meaning of climate?

• The weather that is typical of an area

• The state of air around us

• a period of the year characterized by particular condition of weather

• the changes in weather

The weather that is typical of an area is called as ...

The ... regions at the top and bottom of the Earth are the coldest places.

What is called as an imaginary line drawn around the Earth equally distant from both poles, dividing the Earth into northern and southern hemispheres?

What are the two Earth's hemispheres?

• northern hemisphere

• eastern hemisphere

• southern hemisphere

• western hemisphere

What is the coldest continent in the world?

• Asia

• Europe

• Antarctica

• Australia

Name two greenhouse gases.

• oxygen

• carbon dioxide

• methane

• nitrogen

What is the positive effect of the greenhouse gases?

• they make the world become really warm

• they make the world warm enough to live on

• they make the world cold

• they make the world become really cold

The climate that is freezing cold and icy is called as ...

• Polar and Subaractic

• Temperate

• Desert

• Mediterranean

A ... climate is dry, with very little rainfall each year.