Lesson 5.1 - What Causes Climate?

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Across
  1. 3. the air at the ____ of a mountain is typically cooler than the air at the bottom of the mountain (page 169)
  2. 5. you live in the ____ hemisphere, the hemisphere above the equator
  3. 6. this is affected by latitude, altitude, distance from large bodies of water, and ocean currents (page 167)
  4. 8. the ocean on the east coast of the United States
  5. 9. this is the measure of distance from the equator, not longitude but this (page 168)
  6. 10. of the three major climate zones, this is the zone located between the tropical and polar zones (page 168)
  7. 11. in areas near the equator have ___ climates than areas far from the equator (page 168)
  8. 12. the ocean on the west coast of the United States
  9. 13. the average, year-after-year conditions of temperature, precipitation, wind, and clouds in an area (page 167)
  10. 16. the imaginary line around the center of a globe (page 168)
  11. 17. in the ____, the layer of the atmosphere closest to the Earth’s surface, temperature decreases as altitude increases (page 169)
  12. 19. the side of the mountain downwind, very little rain falls here (page 172)
Down
  1. 1. the side of a mountain the wind hits, rain and snow falls here (page 172)
  2. 2. these climates are found inland from large bodies of water, sometimes the reason they experience more extreme temperatures (page 170)
  3. 4. marine climates are influenced by ____ currents, streams of water that move in regular patterns (page 171)
  4. 7. this process determines climate patterns, two words (page 167)
  5. 14. these climates are influenced by large bodies of water (page 170)
  6. 15. of the three major climate zones, this is the zone that is the coldest, located closest to the pole (page 168)
  7. 17. of the three major climate zones, this is the area above and below the equator (page 168)
  8. 18. the areas at the poles receive less ____ radiation, one of the factors that make them cooler (page 168)