Chapter 3: Seasons, Climate, Vegetation and Vocabulary Test

warming of the ocean surface, or above-average sea surface temperatures, in the central and eastern tropical Pacific Ocean

• Rain Shadow

• El Nino

• Solstice

• Convection

Savanna

• The term flat, grassy, mostly treeless plains in the tropical grassland region.

• A regional ecosystem

• The flat treeless lands forming a ring around the Arctic Ocean; the climate region of the Arctic Ocean.

• A forest region located in the Tropical Zone with a heavy concentration of different species of broad leaf trees.

Coniferous

• Maple,Pine, Oak

• Another word for needle leaf trees

• A named characteristic of broad leaf trees, such as maple, oak, birch, and cottonwood.

• All of the above

A named characteristic of broad leaf trees, such as maple, oak, birch, and cottonwood.

• Both

• Deciduous

• Coniferous

• Log

A forest region located in the Tropical Zone with a heavy concentration of different species of broad leaf trees.

• Tundra

• Rain Forest

• Biome

• Ecosystem

A regional ecosystem

• Green House Effect

• Biome

• Ecosystem

• Rain Forest

Ecosystem

• An interdependent community of insects

• An interdependent community of the planets and moons

• An interdependent community of plants and animals.

• An interdependent community of just plants.

Permanently frozen ground

• Equinox

• Permafrost

• Tundra

• Solstice

The flat treeless lands forming a ring around the Arctic Ocean; the climate region of the Arctic Ocean.

• Rain Forest

• Tundra

• Coniferous

• Deciduous

The layer of gas released by the burning of coal and petroleum that traps solar energy, causing global temperature to increase.

• Precipitation

• Solstice

• Green House Effect

• Equinox