Exam 3: Seasonal and Daily Temperatures

What types of temperature data might be appropriate to include in a short description of a city or region's climate?

In Pennsylvania and New York, wine grapes are planted on the side of ____________________ rather than in valleys.

What are the hottest (coldest)place in the United States? What factors cause these extreme conditions at these locations?

In a hilly region, the best place to plant crops that are sensitive to low temperatures is ____.

Over Earth as a whole, one would expect to observe the smallest variation in temperature from day to day and from month to month ____.

Design a house with the goal to limit its heating and cooling costs.

When it is July and summer in the Northern Hemisphere, it is ____ and ____ in the Southern Hemisphere.

Explain how the weather can affect people's comfort and health.

If clouds arrive at 2 a.m. in the middle of a calm, clear night, it is uncommon to see temperatures rise after 2 a.m.

In many areas of the far western United States, only sparse vegetation grows on ____________________-facing slopes.

Maximum daily temperatures under hazy skies are typically ____________________ than those under clear skies.

The world's hottest officially measured temperature was at ____.

On a clear, calm night, the ground and air above cool mainly by which process?

The maximum in daytime surface temperature typically occurs ____________________ Earth receives its most intense solar radiation.

Incoming solar radiation in middle latitudes is less in winter than in summer because the Sun's rays slant more and spread their energy over a larger area.

In the northern hemisphere, south-facing hillsides have a(n)____________________ growing season than north-facing hillsides.

Valley bottoms are not only colder, but are also more frequently polluted than nearby hillsides.

The winter solstice marks the shortest night of the year in the Northern Hemisphere.

Which of the following latitudes is closer to Earth's axis?

Because the west side of a house warms rapidly in the afternoon, rooms facing that direction should have ____ windows in order for them to act as a thermal buffer.