QSE 1 Reteach Activity 1

What is made possible by the tilt of the Earth's Axis?

• Seasons

• Night and day

• Years

• Climate

What determines the change in weather near mountains?

• Rain shadow

• Maritime effect

• Orographic effect

• Continentality

This term refers to current atmospheric conditions.

• Climate

• Gulf stream

• Precipitation

• Weather

Warm ocean current that sometimes flows up the coast of South America

• Gulf Stream

• Peruvian Stream

• El nino

• La nina

Occasional cooling of ocean currents in the southeast Pacific

• Gulf stream

• Peruvian current

• El nino

• La nina

Processes that help wear down surfaces of the earth (more than one answer is possible)

• Weathering

• Erosion

• Deposition

• Convergence

The side of the mountain that is usually wetter and cooler

• Leeward

• Windward

• Erosion slope

• Peak

Imaginary lines that encircle the earth used to help determine climate zones

• Latitude

• Longitude

• Prime Meridian

• International Date Line

Distance east or west of the prime meridian, measured in degrees

• Tropic of Capricorn

• Tropic of Cancer

• Longitude

• Latitude

A central place and the surrounding territory linked to it

• Formal Region

• Perceptual Region

• Functional Region

• Local Region