Exam 20: Climate

A tropical monsoon climate has less total precipitation and more monthly variation than a tropical savanna climate.

What is a tropical savanna and where are they found?

The climate zone associated with cool summers, warm winters, and little temperature difference year-round is called ____.

Describe the tropical climates with abundant year-round rainfall.

The biome where annual precipitation is 25-35 centimeters and grasslands predominate is called a ____________________.

High-altitude winds from the equator continue to flow all the way to the poles because they are deflected by the Coriolis effect.

Where does the descending air from the horse latitudes flows toward what major features? What happens to the surface winds?

What is the three-cell model?

In the Northern Hemisphere, where do the cycles and anticyclones develop and how does this impact agriculture in this hemisphere?

The polar easterlies and prevailing westerlies converge at approximately ____.

The world's largest deserts lie along the ____ zones near 30° latitude.

The marine west coast climate is characterized by extremely high temperature differences between summer and winter.

The ____ jet stream flows at high altitudes between the trade winds and the westerlies.

Although climate zones are defined by temperature and precipitation, you can often estimate climate types from a ____ of an area.

Describe the marine west coast climate.

The ____________________ is a biome that is characteristic of Arctic and high alpine regions.

The ____________________ is used by climatologists throughout the world to define principle climate groups.

Continental interiors where the temperature can fluctuate greatly between hot summers and cold winters are in the ____ climate zone.

Jet streams form at boundaries between Earth's climate cells as high-altitude air ____.

How are climate zones defined?