Name:_________________________________ Date:_________________ Class:_____________
Notes: Latitude and climate zones
Questions/Topics:
What is Latitude?
Notes:
- ___________________ is a system of parallel lines that measure distance
_____________ and _____________ of the ________________.
What is climate?
- A ______________________ is ______________________ over a long period
of time. ___________________ is what the _________________ is normally like
in any place.
What lines of latitude
are important for
climate zones?
- The ________________________, the _______________ of Cancer and
Capricorn, and the Arctic and Antarctic ____________________ are the lines we
use to divide the world into _________________________ ________________.
Where are the climate
zones?
- The ____________________ Zones: ______________ of the Arctic Circle,
__________________ of the Antarctic Circle
- The ____________________ Zones: between the _______________ circle and
the tropic of __________________ and the Antarctic ______________ and the
_________________ of Capricorn.
- The _________________ Zones: between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic
of Capricorn.
What are the climate
zones like?
-The ___________________ Zones are very ______________ all year.
-The _______________________ Zones have temperature that
________________ depending on the season.
Name:_________________________________ Date:_________________ Class:_____________
How do the
hemispheres affect the
seasons in the
temperate zones?
Notes:
- The _______________ Zones are _____________ all year.
- In the temperate zones in the _____________________ hemisphere, it is
_______________ in summer and ___________ in winter. In December, it
would be _________________.
- In the ___________________ hemisphere, it is cold in _______________ and
hot in __________________. So in December, it would be ___________.
- This happens because of the way the earth is tilted and how the sun’s rays
Why does the length
of the day vary in
different climate
zones?
hit the earth at different times of the year!
-Because the length of daylight depends on________________
- We need to know about climate zones because they change __________
Why is this
important?
__________________________________ in different places.
-Where people live (and what the climate is like) changes ____________
___________________________.