Vocab (3)

weather patterns typical for an area over a long period of time

• equinox

• solistic

• climate

• weather

wind in a region that blows in a fairly constant directional pattern

• deciduous

• el nino

• prevailing wind

• rain shadow

a periodic reversal of the pattern of ocean currents and water temperatures in the mid-Pacific region

• wind ward

• green house effect

• el nino

• climate

 being in or facing the direction from which the wind is blowing

• lee ward

• windward

• oasis

• perma frost

 one of two days (about March 21 and September 23) on which the sun is directly above the Equator, making day and night equal in length

• green house effect

• equinox

• el nino

• wind ward

 the capacity of certain gases in the atmosphere to trap heat, thereby warming the Earth

• green house effect

• leeward

• solistic

• prevailing wind

condition of the atmosphere in one place during a short period of time

• weather

• equinox

• perma frost

• prevailing wind

permanently frozen layer of soil beneath the surface of the ground

• oasis

• perma frost

• wind

• ice

being in or facing the direction toward which the wind is blowing

• perma frost

• wind ward

• biome

• leeward

major type of ecological community defined primarily by distinctive plant and animal groups

• coniferous

• rainshadow

• biome

• oasis