Science Vocab 11/30/07
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- prevailing winds
- winds that blow mainly from one direction
- surface currents
- currents that can be either warm or cold, and are streamlike movements of water that occur at or near the surface of the ocean.
- biome
- a large region characterized by a specific type of climate and the plants and animals that live there.
- polar zones
- the northernmost and southernmost climate zones
- weather
- the condition of the atmosphere at a particular time and place
- temperate zone
- is the climate zone between the Tropics and the polar zone
- elevation
- the height of surface landforms above sea level
- tropical zone
- the warm zone located around the equator
- microclimates
- small regions with unique climatic characteristics.
- evergreens
- trees that keep their leaves year-round
- deciduous
- trees that lose their leaves when the weather becomes cold
- climate
- the average weather conditions in an area over a long period of time