Vocab Ch 4
• climate
• thermohaline circulation
• subtropical deserts
• troposphere
• El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) • littoral zone
• stratosphere
• rain shadow
• limnetic zone
• albedo
• biomes
• phytoplankton
• saturation point
• tundra
• profundal zone
• adiabatic cooling
• permafrost
• benthic zone
• adiabatic heating
• boreal forests
• salt marshes
• latent heat release
• temperate rainforests
• mangrove swamps
• Hadley cells
• temperate seasonal forests
• intertidal zone
• intertropical convergence zone • woodland/shrubland
• coral reefs
• polar cells
• temperate grassland/cold desert
• coral bleaching
• Coriolis effect
• tropical rainforests
• photic zone
• gyres
• tropical seasonal forests
• aphotic zone
• upwelling
• savannas
• chemosynthesis