Exam 17: Earths Changing Climate

The factors that produce the climate in any given region are referred to as the ____.

A trademark of the humid subtropical (Cfa)climate is ____.

As air rises along the windward side of a mountain, precipitation amounts usually ____________________ the higher you go.

Considering the 1980-2010 monthly averages, in July, San Francisco, California, generally receives more rain than Baltimore, Maryland.

According to Köppen, the dry regions of the world occupy more land area (about 26 percent)than any other major climatic type.

What are the Dfa and the Dfb climates? Compare the Dfa climate of Des Moines, Iowa, with the Dfb climate of Winnipeg, Canada.

Discuss the climatic controls that produce the marked seasonal variation in precipitation in areas such as India and Southeast Asia.

In the forest, little sunlight is able to penetrate to the ground through the thick crown cover. As a result, ____.

The leeward side of mountains tends to be ____.

Plants capable of surviving prolonged periods of drought are called ____________________.

Due to changes in the intensity and amount of ____, polar climates are found at high latitudes and tropical climates at low latitudes.

In which of Köppen's climatic types are the average temperatures of the coldest month below 18 degrees C (64 degrees F)and above -3 degrees C (27 degrees F)?

What percentage of the world's land area is covered by arid climates (BW)and where are they located throughout the world?

In tropical regions, the trade winds converge along the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ), producing sinking air masses.

Classifying a climate as dry depends not only on precipitation totals but also on ____________________, which greatly influences evaporation.

When we examine the climate of a small area of Earth's surface, we are looking at the ____, which includes the conditions across regions such as towns.

The relatively dry air and the Antarctic's high elevation permit rapid ____________________ during the dark winter months, producing extremely cold surface air.

According to the ancient Greeks, a middle-latitude ____ zone has a distinct summer and winter, so it exhibits characteristics of both extremes.

When calculated across an entire year, the hottest individual temperature readings on Earth are observed in the ____ of the Northern Hemisphere.

____ typically refers to the climate very near the ground in a small zone where the surface properties are consistent, such as a city park.