World Geography CH 3: Climate and Vegetation Quiz

The natural disaster that caused the extinction of the dinosaurs.

In the Fall and Springs we have____ or days with equal house of light/dark.

Which continent has the world's largest rain forest?

a biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment.

What is another name for needle leaf trees?

A hurricane is known has this in the Pacific Ocean when it hits Asia.

What is another name for trees that have broad leaves?

Lions, elephants, Chuck, live in these, or tropical grasslands.

Forests, grasslands, and deserts are

Land on side of mountain that does not receive moisture.

What is a prairie grassland in the tropical region?

What deadly form of weather contains a funnel-shaped column of spiraling air?

Period of warming over Pacific Ocean that brings rain to the southwest part of the USA.

A dry, desert region containing drought-resistant vegetation.

Hay Springs is in what time of climate zone?

Pine, fir, and other needle leaf trees

What is a regional ecosystem called?

A dry area containing drought-resistant vegetation

Weather conditions at a particular location over a long period of time?

What kind of trees would you mostly find in the Pine Ridge area of Nebraska?

What type of extreme weather results from air moving across warm ocean waters?

A flat, treeless area, such as that forming a ring around the Arctic Ocean?

The transfer of heat in the atmosphere by upward motion of air.

A grassland or prairie in the Northern Hemisphere.

A period of inadequate precipitation.

the pattern of such conditions as temperature and precipitation, over short time.

Constantly frozen supsoil

Oak, birch, and other broadleaf trees

Who is your favorite teacher?

A winter storm with a lot of wind is known as?