weather and cklmate Word Scramble
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climate | the term used for the weather patterns that an area typically experience over a long period of time |
continental climate | the type of climate found in the great central areasmof contients in the northern himisphere by cold snowy winters and warm hot summers |
equinox | eather of the two times each year (spring and fall) when day amd night are nearly equal length every where on earth |
front | the boundry between 2 masses of air that differ in a density or temp. |
percipitation | all forms of water that fall to earth from the atmosphere , including rain or snow |
revolution | the complet orbit of the earth around the sun. The earth completes pne revolution every 365 days or one year |
rotation | the spinning mostion of the earth like a top on its axis as it travles through space |
biome | a term used to describe a major type of ecosystem that can be found in a various regions through out the world |
carnivore | a meat eating animal |
chaparral | a type of natural vegitation that is adapted to mediterranean climates small evergreen trees and low bushes or scrub |
coniferous | cone beating a type of tree able to survive long cold winters with long then needles rether then leaves |
deciduous | leaf shedding a type of tree that sheds its leaves during one seasons |
ecosystem | the interaction and the physical envirment past the the phsyaical envirerment in which ine lives |
herbivore | a plant eating animal |
permafrost | a layer of soil just below the earths surfaces that staysbpermanently |
prairie | a temerate grassland characterzied by a great varitey of grasses |
savanna | tropical grassland with scatterd trees located in the warm lands near the equater |
tundra | a dry treeless plain where temperatures are always cool or cold and only speacialized plants can grow |
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