Climate Vocab Quiz

Major type of ecological community defined primarily by distinctive plant and animal groups.

The average weather conditions as measured over many years.

Vegetation having cones and needle shaped leaves that keep their foliage throughout winter.

The earth's yearly trip around the sun.

The sun's rays strike directly on the tropic of cancer or capricorn marking begin of summer/win

Forest with both coniferous and deciduous trees

Facing the direction from which the wind is blowing

Cold or warm stream of seawater that flows in the oceans, generally in a circular pattern

Physical characteristics of the surface of the land.

Capacity of certain gases in the atmosphere to trap heat, warming the earth.

Result of a process by which dry areas develop on the leeward sides of mountain ranges.

Permanently frozen layer of soil beneath the surface of the ground.

Wind in a region that blows in a fairly constant directional pattern.

The sun is directly above the equator, making day and night equal in length.

Falling off or shed seasonally, trees such as oak and maple,lose leaves in autumn.

The condition of the atmosphere in one place over a short period of time