Exam 15: World Climates

Dry climates are always at low latitudes (within 10° of equator).

The name applied to the northern coniferous forest and to the climate that encompasses that forest is ________.

For many tropical wet and dry (Aw)stations in the Northern Hemisphere,April and May are often warmer than June and July.

In the wet tropics:

A climate is classified as "dry" if it receives less than 30 centimeters of rain annually,on average.

List four of the major controls that determine the climate of a place.

Four of the five major climatic groups listed below have temperature characteristics as their basis.Which one of them does not?

What is the only humid climate that has a strong winter precipitation maximum?

We would normally expect more snow to fall each winter in the subarctic climate than in the humid continental climate.

The primary control of solar radiation at a place is altitude.

The locations of the major pressure and wind systems on the earth:

About 9% of the earth's land area is in the category of ice cap climate.

The best known system for determining world climate patterns is the ________.

Climatic boundaries,such as those shown on a world map of climate regions,fluctuate very little from year to year and should be regarded as fixed.

The high temperatures and precipitation in a tropical rain forest create soils that are:

Mountains often have rainy climates on their windward slopes and dry climates on their leeward slopes.

Rainfall would be most reliable (that is,the amount received each year would vary the least)in which of the following climates?

________ climates display a large variation over small areas.

Since the humid continental climate is a land-controlled climate,it is never found bordering the ocean.

A perusal of a world climate map shows that similar climates are located: