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Topic 1 Lesson 3 Climates and Ecosystems
Topic 1 Lesson 3 Climates and Ecosystems
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What area has a hot summer, cold winter, and mild falls and springs?
Polar zones
Tropics
Temperate zones
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What part of the water cycle returns water to Earth's surface?
Precipitation
Transpiration
Evaporation
3
Weather is the temperature and precipitation conditions at a specific time and location.
True
False
4
Regions on Earth that are made up of similar communities of plants and animals
What is a biome
What is an ecosystem
5
What name is often used for tropical cyclones in the United States?
Hurricanes
Tropical Cyclones
Tornadoes
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Land takes longer to heat or cool than water.
False
True
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How does ocean currents affect water temperature?
They act like large rivers; they move warm water from the tropics
They make the wind blow
They cause the sunlight to heat the Earth
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What are the two main things that happen to precipitation?
Water seeps in the ground or falls into a body of water
Precipitation pollutes the Earth
Precipitation is high quality
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What causes belts of air to rise away from Earth's surface and sink back towards it?
Changes in temperature
Changes in prevailing winds
Changes in precipitation
10
What area has the sun overhead most of the year and is hot?
Tropics
Temperate zones
Polar zones
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How does the ocean keep the temperature moderate?
The curve of the Earth affects the amount of sunlight
The ocean stays cooler in summer and warmer in winter
The ocean's waves move water around and create the perfect temperature
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What are prevailing winds?
Winds that an area has during a storm
Heavy winds that blow across a region
Winds that an area most frequently blow across a region
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What area has cool to bitter temperatures year around?
Polar zones
Tropics
Temperate zones
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What does moderate mean?
Extreme, outrageous
mild, not extreme
to go backwards
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All of the following are types of precipitation except
sleet
rain
snow
evaporation
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Climate is a location's average weather over a long period of time.
False
True
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What causes some regions to be warmer than others?
The tilt of the sun
The curvature of the moon (areas receive different amounts of moonlight)
The distance of the moon
The curvature of the Earth (areas receive different amounts of sunlight)
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What does reverse mean?
to go forward
mild, not extreme
to go backwards
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What are the three main types of ecosystems?
cold climate, tundra, and grassland
forrest, grassland, and cold climate
grassland, forrest, and jungle
