Climate and Climate Change

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

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