Which Latitude Belt is home to the Tropical Climates?

Which zone is shaded in Green?

Which zone is shaded in pink?

Which latitude zone is shaded in orange?

Equator

A violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and extending from the base of a thunderstorm.

What country has more tornadoes than any other country in the world?

Where do most tornadoes in the United States occur?

Which part of the earth gets the maximum amount of sunlight?

What causes damage in a hurricane/typhoon

Tropical storms in the Northwest Pacific are called

Which of the following is a reason monsoons are bad?

What latitudes are these?

Colder areas of the world are generally located where:

Warm areas of the world located closest to the Equator are known as:

The area of the world that has the most variable weather (and includes the United States) is:

The short term conditions of the atmosphere at a specific place and time?

The average conditions of the atmosphere for an area over a long period of time is referred to as

What are four factors that affect climate?

Which city will have a cooler average temperature

Fill in the blank: The higher the elevation, the ______ the temperature.

What factor has the greatest influence on the climate of these two cities?

Which BEST describes why latitudes closest to the equator have warmer climates?

What factor influencing climate is most dramatically displayed in this image of the African Savanna?

Which factor would most affect the total amount of solar energy received by a location on the Earth's surface in a given period, assuming no cloud cover?

What is precipitation?

Which of the following 2 determine the climate of an area?

What type of climate would you expect areas along the equator to have?

All matter on Earth can be categorized into subsystems called

The biosphere includes which of the following?

A hurricane sweeps across the ocean and onto land, damaging the houses of the people who live along the coast. What spheres are affected by this natural disaster?

A volcano erupts, sending ash and gases into the air and sending lava into a surrounding forest. What spheres are affected by this natural disaster?

Which meaning goes with the Latin prefix Atmo-

Which meaning goes with the Latin prefix Bio-

Which meaning goes with the Latin prefix Hydro-

Which meaning goes with the Latin prefix Geo-

True or False: All Earth's spheres interact in the Ecosphere but there is no energy transferred between the spheres.

True or False: The term Ecosphere includes both biotic (living) and abiotic (non-living) factors?

True or False: Parts of the hydrosphere are located in the atmosphere, such as water vapor.

Which sphere is "A"

Which sphere is "B"

Which sphere is "C"

Which sphere is "D"