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Landforms & Climate
Chapter 1 & 2 Landforms/Climate Vocabulary Terms
| Answer | Question |
|---|---|
| Part of a large body of water that extends into a shoreline, generally smaller than a gulf | What is a bay? |
| Wide strait or waterway between two landmasses on the earth | What is a channel? |
| Unusual predictable pattern of weather over a long period of time. | What is climate? |
| Moving streams of water in the world's oceans; affects climate | What is a current? |
| Long periods of extreme dryness and water shortage | What is a drought? |
| Height of land above sea level | What is elevation? |
| individual features of the land | What is a landform? |
| Part of a large body of water that extends into a shoreline, generally larger and more deeply indented that a bay | What is a gulf? |
| A cold climate that lies from 60 degrees north and from 60 degrees south to the south pole | What is high latitude climate? |
| temperate climate (think seasons)extend from 23.5 degrees north to 60 degrees north | What is mid latitude climate? |
| warm year round extends from the equator to the Tropic of Cancer (23.5 degrees north) | What is tropical climate? |
| cool or cold climate that varies with elevation(like high up in the mountains) | What is highland climate? |
| Caused by the combination of temperature wind and water. Formed when cold winds from the north are weak. Pacific Ocean gets warmer. Occurs every three years. | What is El Nino? |
| Eastern winds become strong and the opposite of El Nino occurs: Pacific Ocean gets cooler. | What is El Nina? |
| movements of air that travel around the earth in a typical pattern. | What is a Prevailing wind? |
| A sheltered place along a shoreline where ships can anchor safely | What is a harbor? |
| Violent tropical storm with high winds and heavy rainfall | What is a hurricane? |
| land area, smaller than a continent, completely surrounded by water | What is an island? |
| Dry to partially dry areas with little or no rain. | What is dry climate? |
| A sizable inland body of water | What is a lake? |
| land with steep sides that rises sharply (1000 feet or more) from surrounding land; generally larger and more rugged than a hill | What is a mountain? |
| A series of connected mountains | What is a mountain range? |
| A hurricane in Asia | What is a typhoon? |
| A funnel shaped wind storm; may form during a thunderstorm | What is a tornado? |
| low latitude region between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn | What are the tropics? |
| Seasonal wind that blows over a continent for a long period of time | What is a monsoon? |
| Unpredictable changes in the air that take place in the air that take place in a short period of time | What is weather? |
| Body of land jutting out into a lake or an ocean surround by it on three side. | What is a peninsula? |
| AN area of low elevation usually 300-30000 ft high | What is a plateau? |
| characteristics of a place, naturally occuring like landforms, climate, resources. | What is a physical feature? |
| large natural strean of water that runs through land | What is a river? |
| Large body of water partially or comppletely surrounded by land | What is a sea? |
| Narrow stretch of water joining two larger bodies of water. | What is a strait? |
| 1 of the 4 mahor bodies of salt water that surround the continents | What is an ocean? |
| mountain created as liquid rock and ash erupt from the inside of the earth | What is a volcano? |
| Area of lowland between hills and mountains | What is a valley? |
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