E/S Chapter 22 Climate

Question 1

Temperature and wind patterns are determined by what?

Accepted Answer

solar energy

Question 2

It is imp. to consider what else beyond avg. temp. and precipitation when describing a climate?

Accepted Answer

differences between the highest and lowest monthly averages

Question 3

Has average temps @ or below freezing; typical of polar regions

Accepted Answer

polar cliamte

Question 4

The condition of the atmosphere at any given time is called what?

Accepted Answer

weather

Question 5

Scientists can learn how animals adapted to changing climates by studying what?

Accepted Answer

fossils

Question 6

The warm-water phase of ENSO that affects weather patterns when surface-water temps bec. warm.

Accepted Answer

El Nino

Question 7

Differences in ___________ are caused by the unequal heating of the Earth's surface.

Accepted Answer

air pressure

Question 8

Because cool air is dense, it forms regions of what kind of pressure?

Accepted Answer

high

Question 9

This is the dry wind that flows down the slopes of the Alps.

Accepted Answer

Foehn

Question 10

A process that affects climate on both sides of the mountain.

Accepted Answer

rain shadow

Question 11

If a decrease in CO2 was found in a(n) ____________, it would indicate an ice age in the past.

Accepted Answer

ice core

Question 12

When cold air near the poles sinks, it creates centers of what?

Accepted Answer

High pressure

Question 13

The average weather conditions for an area over a long period of time are known as what?

Accepted Answer

climate

Question 14

If you add the high and low temperatures of the day and divide by two, you will have what?

Accepted Answer

the average daily temperature range

Question 15

This is a cycle of changing wind and water-current patterns in the Pacific Ocean.

Accepted Answer

El Nino-Southern Oscillation

Question 16

Climates are chiefly determined by using what two things?

Accepted Answer

average temperature and precipitation

Question 17

These are created by differences in air pressure at various locations on Earth.

Accepted Answer

wind patterns

Question 18

What can one use to describe precipitation?

Accepted Answer

monthly and yearly averages and ranges

Question 19

The surface features of land are called what?

Accepted Answer

topography

Question 20

A warm, dry wind that forms as part of a rain shadow on the eastern slope of the Rockies

Accepted Answer

Chinook

Question 21

The region along this line receives more solar energy than polar regions do.

Accepted Answer

Equator

Question 22

The cool-water phase of ENSO that affects weather patterns

Accepted Answer

La Nina

Question 23

In the middle latitudes, warm tropical air meets cold polar air, leading to belts of what?

Accepted Answer

greater precipitation

Question 24

When air moves, it moves from . . .?

Accepted Answer

areas of high pressure to areas of low pressure

Question 25

Avg. max. temp below 18 dg. C. in coldest mo. & avg. min temp above 10 dg. C in warmest. mo.

Accepted Answer

middle-latitude climate

Question 26

Computer-generated climate models that simulate changes in only variable are called what?

Accepted Answer

GCM's (General Circulation Models)

Question 27

Char. by high temps & heavy precip. during @ least part of the year - near equatorial reg.

Accepted Answer

tropical climate

Question 28

This seasonal wind blows tow. land in the summer bringing heavy rains, & in winter dry weather.

Accepted Answer

monsoon

Question 29

Heat absorption and release & these 2 other factors have the grtst inf. on both temp. & precip.

Accepted Answer

latitude and topography

Question 30

When heated equatorial air rises, it creates a center of what?

Accepted Answer

Low pressure

E/S Chapter 22 Climate

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E/S Chapter 22 Climate

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