Exam 2: North America's Environmental Setting

Looking at the maps (Figure 2.12),what part of North America receives the highest levels of precipitation during the summer?

The Great Lakes-St.Lawrence system flows ________ into the ________.

Compare a Mediterranean climate to a West Coast Marine climate.Where are these climate zones located? How are they similar or different?

When depositional forces are dominant on a coastline,those forces produce which of the following features?

The study of the environmental characteristics of Earth is called what?

After a fire,chaparral vegetation ________.

An area that shares a common drainage system is called a ________.

When the temperatures in a city are generally higher than those in the surrounding landscape it is called ________.

The Intermontane physiographic province has which of the following characteristics?

The Canadian Shield covers about how much of the area of Canada?

The Erie Canal was constructed to provide water route between the Atlantic Coast and what?

Sinkholes are associated with which type of landscape?

What are some different characteristics that geographers use to describe the physical environment? Pick two different characteristics and describe how they relate to each other.

Differences in atmospheric pressure are measured using what?

A front is an area of contact between two different air masses where warmer,moister air is force to rise above cooler air,causing ________.

Temperate grasslands are one of the most highly modified biomes in North America because ________.

Areas with dry climates on the leeward (downwind)side of mountain ranges are said to be located in the what?

Explosive eruptions of pyroclastic debris and gases are associated with which type of volcanoes?

Air masses that originate over land are generally ________ in comparison to ________ are masses that originate over oceans or large lakes.

The Mississippi-Missouri river basin flows ________ into the ________.