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ANSWER KEY for page 9 VOCABULARY The following words and terms are from Climates, Landscapes and Life: The Tropics. Read each definition. On the line next to the definition write the letter of the vocabulary word that matches the definition. Then use a separate piece of paper to write each word in a sentence. A) alluvial B) arboreal C) climate D) exotic river E) monsoon F) montane G) savanna H) seasonality I) selva J) shifting cultivation 1. ________ I dense tropical rainforest, found in South America (the Amazon Rainforest) and in parts of Mesoamerica, such as in Costa Rica 2. ________ G a grassland found in the wet-dry tropics; vegetation consists of grasses, scattered trees and drought-resistant woody shrubs 3. ________ D large stream that originates in a well-watered area far from the desert that it flows through 4. ________ A the practice of cutting down areas of existing forest to use the land for farming or pasturing of livestock. Once the land becomes infertile, it is abandoned; also known as slash-and-burn agriculture 5. ________ J a seasonal wind that brings heavy summer rains to Southern and South East Asia E 6. ________ refers to animals that are tree-dwelling 7. ________ B the yearly pattern of weather in a given place, taking into account temperature, wind, precipitation, latitude, elevation, and distance from mountain ranges and major bodies of water 8. ________ H the occurrence of weather phenomena as specific times of year, such as summer rains or winter snowfall 9. ________ A describes soil made up of sand, gravel, silt, or clay deposited by running water 10.________ F describes a temperate zone in the tropical highlands that is humid, cool, and is usually heavily cultivated 20 © Copyright 2002 • AIMS Multimedia • Climate, Landscapes and Life: The Tropics • #2650
ANSWER KEY for page 10 CHECKING COMPREHENSION Read the following sentences and circle the letters of the words that best fill each blank. Distances north and south on the globe are measured in degrees 1 from 2 . The tropics lie between the 3 and 4 . In the tropics, the sun 5 . Because of this, 6 . At sea level, temperatures 7 . The tropics can be divided into climatic regions based on 8 . In the rainy tropics, the natural vegetation is dense rainforest, or 9 , where the forest floor has sparse vegetation because 10 . The heavy rainfall feeds many large rivers. The Amazon 11 . Shifting cultivation, practiced in the rainy tropics, has 12 . Continents where there are large expanses of wet-dry and monsoon tropics include 13 . New Delhi, India, Bangkok, Thailand, and Guangzhou, China are major cities in 14 . The world’s largest desert, 15 , stretches across 16 from 17 . Living organisms in the desert survive through 18 . Perennial rivers that cross the deserts are called 19 . Because temperature 20 with elevation, the summits of high mountains, such as the Andes in the tropical highlands, are 21 . The montane temperate zone of the tropical highlands supports 22 . The principal subsistence crop in the Americas is 23 which thrives in the tropical highland. 24 , domesticated in the Andes, also grow well in the highlands. The world’s highest capital city, 25 , is found in the highlands at an elevation of 12,000 feet. 1. a) Celsius b) Fahrenheit c) of latitude 7. a) rarely rise above 80˚ Fahrenheit b) are usually above 115˚ Fahrenheit c) never drop below freezing 2. a) thermometer b) equator c) barometer 8. a) the political regimes of countries located there b) the seasonality and amount of precipitation they receive c) their degrees of longitude 3. a) arctic circle b) antarctic circle c) Tropic of Cancer 9. a) selva b) desert c) savanna 4. a) and the north pole b) and the south pole c) Tropic of Capricorn 10. a) the region’s herbivores constantly devour the groundcover b) little sunlight penetrates the tree canopy c) no rainfall can penetrate the tree canopy 5. a) rises and sets at about the same time all year b) never dips below the horizon c) is farther from Earth than at latitudes closer to the poles 6. a) there is at least a low level of daylight year ‘round b) there is little seasonal change in the length of days and nights c) there is a lower risk of sunburn in the tropics than elsewhere 11. a) is the longest river in the world b) frequently dries up in the summer heat c) carries more water to the sea than the Earth’s next three largest rivers combined 12. a) damaged the environment of the rainy tropics by destroying large parts of the rainforest b) increased the population’s agricultural output tenfold c) had no impact on the local environment 21 © Copyright 2002 • AIMS Multimedia • Climate, Landscapes and Life: The Tropics • #2650
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Page 5 and 6: ADDITIONAL ATM FEATURES Vocabulary
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