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Language Exercises

I. NEW TERMINOLOGY: Oral Exercises
1. Select words from the list below to complete the following sentences. Some of the words
may be used more than once, and you may have to make the word plural or change the
tense. Do not try to write the words in the spaces.
Equator polar zones tropical zone

extend southern
northern temperate zone

a. The tropical zone ______ about 1600 miles north and south of the equator.
b. The northern_____ ______ is located between the tropical zone and the northern polar
zone.
c. Temperatures in the _______ __________ tend to be warm or hot through out the year.

d. The dividing line between the northern hemisphere and the southern hemisphere is the
________ .
e. Temperatures in the southern temperate zone are about the same as those in the
__________ temperate zone.

f. The ______ temperate zone is located between the tropical zone and the southern polar
zone.

g. We associate ice, snow, and year-round cold weather with the ________ .
h. When the northern hemisphere is having winter, the ______ hemisphere is having
summer.
i. When we are above the ______ , temperatures get colder as we go northward; when we
are below the_______, they get colder as we go southward.

J. We usually think of the earth's axis as the imaginary line. That _____ through the earth,
from the north pole to the south pole.
k. The ________ _________ get their names from the fact that they are the zones located
around the north and south poles.
l. Weather in the _______ ________ is not the same throughout the year; summers are
warm/hot and winters are cool/cold.

m. The_______ ________ has a warm/hot climate throughout the year because its position
in relation to the sun does not change much as the earth makes its revolution
n. The climates in the two ________ _________ and the two ________ _________ show
changes by seasons because their positions are greatly changed in the revolution,
according to whether they are angled toward, or away from the sun.