1. Climate and Climate Change Test Review

2. Thick forests that get large amounts of rain year round.

3. Rain forests

4. The climate of the northeastern United States

5. Humid continental

6. Two sources of information about ancient climates

7. Pollen and tree rings

8. A major cause of ozone depletion

9. CFCs

10. A small area with climate conditions different from those around it

11. microclimate

12. The cold, glacial period in Earth’s history

13. Ice ages

14. Scientists have linked short-term changes in climate to this

15. Number of sunspots

16. The average, year-after-year conditions of temperature and precipitation in an area

17. climate

18. What month is the south end of Earth’s axis is tilted toward the sun?

19. December

20. In which climate are temperatures always at or below freezing?

21. Ice cap

22. A warm-water event in the Pacific Ocean

23. El Nino

24. Breezes over a large region that change direction with the seasons

25. monsoons

26. Name two things that determine the climate of a region

27. Temperature and precipitation

28. The gradual increase in the temperature of Earth’s atmosphere

29. Global warming

30. An arid region that gets less than 25 cm of rain per year

31. desert

32. Gases in the atmosphere that trap heat

33. Greenhouse gases

34. Permanently frozen soil found in the tundra

35. Permafrost

36. A semiarid region that gets just enough rainfall for short grasses and low bushes to grow

37. steppe

38. A result of the earth’s tilted axis

39. seasons

40. Climate that is hot with a lot of precipitation

41. Tropical rainy

42. Climate that has cold winters and warm or hot summers

43. Temperate continental

44. Climate that is colder than regions surrounding them

45. highlands

46. Coldest climate

47. Polar

48. Climate that occurs when the amount of precipitation is less than what could evaporate

49. dry

50. Climate that has humid mild winters