Climate determines where life lives Flashcards
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Look at stricky notes
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Tropics
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Latitudes b/w 23.5 north and south ; the rejoin surrounding the equator
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Temperate zone
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Latitudes b/w the tropics and Arctic Circle in the north and the antarctic circle in the south; regions with milder climates than tropics or polar regions
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Prevailing Winds
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Major global air movement; Winds that result from produced, to a sugar sink where are used.
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Ocean currents
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one of the river like floe patterns in the ocean
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Biomes
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A major type of ecological association that acccupies a broad geographic region of land or water and characterized by organisms adapted to the particular environment
