Term | Definition |
1.Weather | The condition of the bottom layer of the earth's atmosphere on one place over a short period of time |
2.Climate | The term used for the weather patterns that an area typically experiences over a long period of time |
3.Rotation | The spinning motion of the earth like a top on its axis as it travels through space |
4.Revolution | One complete orbit of the earth around the sun. The earth completes one revolution every 365 1/4 days or one year |
5.Solstice | Either of the two times a year when the sun appears directly overhead at the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn. |
6.Precipitation | All the forms of water that fall to earth from the atmosphere including rain and snow |
7.Front | the boundary between two masses of air that differ in density or temperature |
8.Continental Climate | The type of climate found in the great central areas of continents in the Northern Hemisphere; characterized by cold, snowy winters and warm or hot summers |
9.Equinox | Either of the two times of each year (spring and fall) when day and night are of nearly equal length everywhere on earth. |
10.Ecosystem | The interaction of plant life animal life and the physical environment in which they live. |
11.Biome | The term used to describe a major type of ecosystem that can be found in various regions throughout the world. |
12.Deciduous | Leaf-shedding a type of tree that sheds its leaves during on season. |
13.Coniferous | Cone-bearing a type of tree able to survive long cold winters with long thin needles rather than leaves. |
14.Chaparral | A type of natural vegetation that is adapted to Mediterranean climates small evergreen trees and low bushes or scrub |
15.Savanna | At tropical grassland with scattered trees located in the warm lands near the Equator |
16.Herbivore | A plant-eating animal |
17.Carnivore | A meat-eating animal |
18.Prairie | A temperate grassland characterized by a great variety of grasses |
19.Tundra | A dry treeless plain where temperatures are always cool or cold and only specialized plants can row |
20.Permafrost | A layer of soil just below the earth's surface that stays permanently frozen |