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Geo Climate
Geography
Question | Answer |
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Bay | part of a large bod of water |
Channel | wide strait or waterway between two land masses that lie close to each other; deep part of a river or tother lanad masses |
Climate | usual predicatable patteren of weather over a long period of time |
Current | moving streams in the water in the world's oceans; affects climate |
dry climate | dry to partically dry areas with little or no rain;temeratures can range from very cold to very hot |
Drought | long periods of extreme dryness and water shortage |
elevation | height above sea level |
El Nino | Caused by the combination of temperature wind and water. Formed when cold water from the north are weak. Pacific Ocean gets warmer. Occurs every 3 years. |
landform | indivial features of the land |
gulf | part of a large body of water that enstends in lan; larger than a bay |
harbor | a sheltered place alongthe shoreline where ships can anchor safely |
Hurricane | violent tropical storm with hogh winds and heavy rainfall |
High-latitude climate | cold climate lies from 60 degrees north to the north pole and from 60 degrees to the south to the south pole |
island | land completly surronded by water |
highland climate | cool or cold climates that varies with elevation |
La Nina | Easteren winds become strong and the opposite of El Nino occurs-Pacific Ocean gets colder |
lake | a sizeable inland body of water |
Mountian | land with steep sides that rise sharply (1,000 ft or more) from surrounding land |
tropical climate | warm year around that extends around the equator to the tropic of cancer to the tropic of capicorn |
Mid-latitude climate | temperature climate (think seasons) extend from 231/2 degrees north to 60 degrees north and from 231/2 degrees south to 60 degrees south |
Mountian range | a seriers of connected mountians |
Monsoon | seasonal wind that blows over a continent for a long period of time |
Weather | unpredicaable changes |
peninsula | A body of land jutting out into a lake or an ocean surrounded by three sides by water |
plain | area of low land at low elevation; covered with grass |
Previaling wind | movements around air that travel around the earth in a typical patteren |
plateau | flat or rolling land at high elevation usually 300-3000 ft high |
phyical feature | characteristics of a place-naturally occuring like landforms, climate, resources |
river | large natural stream that runs through land |
sea | large body of water partically or completely surrounded by land |
Tropics | low latitude region between the tropic of cancer and the tropic of Capicorn |
typhoon | name for a hurricnae in asia |
tornado | funnel-shaped windstorm; sometimes forms during a thunderstorm |
strait | narrow strech of water joining to larger bodies of water |
ocean | one of four major bodies of water |
volcano | mountian created as liquid rock and ash erupt from inside the earth |
valley | area of lowland between hills and mountians |