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Domi'sGeo Final #2&3
Landforms and Climate
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Part of a large body of water that extends into shoreline | Bay |
| Wide strait or waterway between two landmasses that lie close to eact other | Channel |
| Usual predicatble pattern of weather over a long peroid of time | Climate |
| Moving streams of water in the world's oceans; affects climate | Current |
| Long periods of extreme dryness and water shortage | Drought |
| Height above sea level | Elevation |
| Individual features of the land | Landform |
| Part of a large body of water that enstends inland; larger than a bay | Gulf |
| A sheltered place along a shoreline where ships can anchor safely | Harbor |
| Violent tropical storm with high winds and heave rainfall | Hurricane |
| Land completely surrounded by water | island |
| A sizeable inland body of water | Lake |
| Cold climate lies from 60 degrees North to the North Pole and from 60 degrees South to the South Pole | High-latitude climate |
| Cool or cold climate that varies with elevation (like high up in the mountains) | Highland Climate |
| Warm year round extends from the equator to the Tropic of Cancer (23 1/2 degrees North) and from the Equator to the Tropic of Capricorn (23 1/2 degrees South) | Tropical Climate |
| Temperate climate (think seasons) extend from 231/2 degrees North to 60 degrees North and from 231/2 degrees South to 60 degrees South | Mid-latitude climate |
| Movements of air that travel around the Earth in a typical pattern. | Prevailing Wind |
| Caused by the combination of temperature wind and water. Formed when cold winds from the North are weak. Pacific Ocean gets warmer. Occurs every 3 years. | El Nino |
| Eastern winds become strong and the opposite of El Nino occurs-Pacific Ocean gets cooler. | La Nina |
| Dry to partially dry areas with little rain; tempatures can range from very cold to very hot. | Dry Climate |
| Name for a hurricane in Asia | Typhoon |
| Funnel-shaped windstorm; sometimes forms during a thunderstorm | Tornado |
| Low latitude region between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn | Tropics |
| Land with steep sides that rise sharply (1,000 feet or more) from surrounding land | Mountain |
| A seires of connected mountains | Mountain Range |
| A seasonal wind that blows over a continent for a long peroid of time | Monsoon |
| Unpridictable changes in the air that take place in a short peroid of time | Weather |
| Body of land jutting out into a lake or an ocean surrounded on three sides by water | Penninsula |
| Area of low land at low elevation; covered with grass | Plain |
| Flat or rolling land at high elevation usually 300-30,000 ft high | Plateau |
| Characteristics of a place-natually occurring like landforms,climate, resources | Physical Feature |
| Large natural stream of water that runs through land | River |
| Large body of water partially or completely surrounded by land | Sea |
| Narrow strech of water joining two larger bodies of water | Strait |
| One of the four major bodies of salt water that surround the continents | Ocean |
| Mounatin created rock and ash erupt from inside the Earth | Volcano |
| Area of lowland between hills and mountains | Valley |
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