Climate and Climate Change
Across
- 4. a dry place but gets enough rain for grass and low bushes also referred to as a grassland
- 5. consists of wet and dry temperature though not as hot as the tropics
- 10. winters are cold summers are hot
- 13. a warm water event with unusual pattern of winds that form over the Pacific
- 14. glacial episodes
- 16. when surface waters in the eastern Pacific are colder than usual this occurs
- 17. sea and land and sea breezes over a large region that change directions with the with season
- 18. forests where large amount of rain falls all year round
- 20. tropical grasslands
Down
- 1. An area between the polar and tropical zones
- 2. small areas with climate conditions that are different from ones around it
- 3. lies north of humid continental climates summers here are short and winters are long
- 6. permanently frozen tundra soil
- 7. the downwind of the mountain
- 8. arid regions
- 9. climate consists of short cool summers with bitterly cold winters
- 10. the average year after year temperature
- 11. the area near the equator
- 12. has mild winters and cool summers
- 15. the side of the mountain the wind hits
- 19. dark cooler regions on the suns surface