Chapter 5: Climate and Climate Change

Question 1

The movements of _____ over time affected the global patterns of winds and ocean currents.

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continents

Question 2

Inland regions of North America and Asia have _____ climates.

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temperate continental

Question 3

Climate is the avg. year-after-year conditions of temp., precip., wind, and clouds in an area.

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True

Question 4

Scientist assume an organism’s ancestor required a climate similar to the present-day organism.

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True

Question 5

What is the climate region that has the microclimates: tropical wet and tropical wet-and-dry?

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tropical rainy

Question 6

Humid subtropical, marine west coast, and Mediterranean are three kinds of dry climates.

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False

Question 7

Most of the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere was released by human beings burning methane.

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False

Question 8

The main factors that affect an area’s temperature are prevailing winds and mountains.

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False

Question 9

Climate changes may be linked to changes in the number of __________ on the surface of the sun.

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sun spots

Question 10

Climates are classified by two major factors:

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precipitation and temperature

Question 11

The greenhouse effect is necessary to keep Earth’s surface warm.

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True

Question 12

Which is not a naturally occurring source of climate change?

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burning fossil fuels

Question 13

The factors that affect _____are prevailing winds, presence of mountains, and seasonal winds.

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precipitation

Question 14

Changes in the direction and angle of Earth’s axis affect the severity of ____ .

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ice ages

Question 15

Many human activities are increasing the level of the greenhouse effect in the atmosphere.

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False

Question 16

The width of___ helps scientists learn about temperatures and precipitation long ago.

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tree rings

Question 17

Areas near the ______have warmer climates because the sun’s rays hit more directly there.

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equator

Question 18

Many mountainous areas have ____climates than the lower areas around them.

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colder

Question 19

Three examples of main climate regions are: humid subtropical, highland, and semiarid

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False

Question 20

Much of the west coasts of North America, South America, and Europe have _____climates.

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temperate marine

Question 21

The ________ is the coldest climate region and includes the tundra and ice cap climates.

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polar climate

Question 22

Permafrost and mosses, lichens, and wildflowers are common in the

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tundra

Question 23

What is the study of tree rings called?

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Dendrochronology

Question 24

Streams of water called ocean currents move warm or cold water, effecting nearby land.

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True

Question 25

Regions that receive less than 25 centimeters of rain annually are called

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deserts

Question 26

An arid or semiarid climate occurs where precipitation is greater than potential evaporation.

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False

Question 27

How long ago was the last ice age?

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10,000 years ago

Question 28

Severe droughts cause some lands to become deserts, and can lead to food shortages.

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True

Question 29

Effects of global warming include: drought and desertification.

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True

Question 30

Köppen’s climate system classified climates by a region’s temperature, precipitation and?

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vegetation

Question 31

The sun’s rays are least direct

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near the poles

Question 32

Temp. falls as altitude increases, so ____climate regions are colder than surrounding ones.

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highland

Question 33

Oceans make the temperatures of nearby land more extreme.

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False

Question 34

A temperate continental climate with short cool summers and long, bitterly cold winters is the

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subartic

Question 35

Other than the burning of fossil fuels, what human activity is responsible for increasing the carbon dioxide?

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Deforestation

Question 36

Clues to what ancient climates were like come from all of the following except

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thickness of rock layers

Question 37

Pushing carbon dioxide into the ocean as a method of carbon capture is now illegal because it causes what effect?

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ocean acidification

Question 38

In the Southern Hemisphere there are no land areas at the right latitude for polar climates.

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False

Question 39

What is the climate region that has the microclimates: arid and semiarid?

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dry

Question 40

Changes in climate occur slowly, but the consequences of such changes are great.

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True

Question 41

__________winds are those that usually blow in one direction in a region

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prevailing

Question 42

The farther you live from an ocean, the more likely your climate will be a

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continental climate

Question 43

Scientists believe ancient organisms similar to current organisms needed the same environments

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True

Question 44

Rain shadows are forests in which plenty of rain falls all year.

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False

Question 45

____is affected by latitude, altitude, distance from large bodies of water, and ocean currents.

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temperature

Question 46

Temperate continental climates have cold winters and warm summers.

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True

Question 47

Being more energy-efficient will help limit radiation of heat back to space as infrared waves.

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False

Question 48

Scientists classify daily weather according to temperature, precipitation, and vegetation.

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False

Question 49

The land on the ____________________ side of a mountain range is in a rain shadow.

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leeward

Question 50

There have been about five ice ages two million years.

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False

Question 51

Scientists analyze ___found in lake bottoms to learn what type of plants lived there long ago.

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pollen

Question 52

What is the super-continent from 200 million years ago called?

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Pangaea

Question 53

One cause of rising global temperatures is increasing levels of_____.

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greenhouse gases

Question 54

Between the tropical zones and the polar zones are the temperate zones

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True

Question 55

Earth’s climate has not been affected by the angle of Earth’s axis and orbit around the sun.

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False

Question 56

Daily weather, amount of sunlight, and the pattern of seasons vary according to

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different climate regions

Question 57

Which of the following has caused repeating 100,000-year cycles of ice ages in the past?

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changes in orbit and axis tilt

Question 58

Another effect of global warming is changes to ecosystems in the biosphere.

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True

Question 59

Temperate continental climates are found only on continents in the Northern Hemisphere.

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True

Question 60

The most abundant greenhouse gas is ______.

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carbon dioxide

Question 61

During each ice age, huge sheets of ice called aerosols covered large parts of Earth’s surface.

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False

Question 62

Over the past 200 years, the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has

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increased steadily

Question 63

Melting glaciers are causing to land to rise around the world.

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False

Question 64

_____are sea and land breezes over a large region that change direction with the seasons.

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monsoons

Chapter 5: Climate and Climate Change

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Chapter 5: Climate and Climate Change

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