Chapter 8: Climate and Climate Change

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rising

Sea levels are _________.

Highlands

There are 6 groups in the Koppen classification; which one of the six modified into the classification? (think mountains)

polar deserts

What are B climates NOT?

cyclones

What are more intense as a result of global warming?

ICTZ

What are the rains around tropical, humid climates influenced by?

dry years

What do close tree rings indicate?

forest fires

What do dark areas on tree rings indicate?

wet years

What do far tree rings indicate?

equator

What does A represent that prevents us from stating the third letter (temperature)? It only shifts around 3 degrees N or S.

group name

What does the first letter of Koppen's three letter system indicate?

rain

What does the second letter of Koppen's three letter system indicate?

temperature

What does the third letter of Koppen's three letter system indicate?

torrid, temperate, frigid

What were the three major climate classifications used by the Greeks?

CO2

When ice thaws what is released?

coral reefs

When oceans get too cold, what dies?

D

Which climate experiences all four seasons with little rain? (long cold winter, short summer, spring and fall transitions)

E

Which letter has permafrost and now temperature exceeding 50 degrees?

B

Which letter indicates dry desert climates?

H

Which letter indicates highland climates?

C

Which letter indicates mild midlatitude climates?

E

Which letter indicates polar climates?

D

Which letter indicates severe midlatitude climates?

A

Which letter indicates tropical, humid climates?

Aw

Which letters indicate a lot of rain but not everyday? (tropical Savannah climate)

Csb

Which letters indicate coastal Mediterranean climate like Los Angeles?

Af

Which letters indicate frequent rain, everyday at noon? (tropical rainforest)

Am

Which letters indicate tropical monsoonal conditions?

Wladimir Koppen

climatologist and botanist

arid

dry desert

continentally

remoteness from oceans

steppe

semiarid desert, less dry

average rain month by month

On a climograph, what does that bar graph represent?

average temperature month by month

On a climograph, what does the red line denote?

Af

Aw surrounds what?

Northern Hemisphere

D conditions are only where? (continentality)

monsoons

How does Am differ from Aw?

less rainfall

How does Aw differ from Af?

scarce and unreliable

How is rain in B zones?

2200

How many years ago was the earliest climate classification system? (used by the Greeks)

2

Ice is decreasing at _x the global rate.

cyclones, convection

In humid continental climate, winter precipitation is associated with ____________ an summer with _________.

quantitative

Is Koppen's system quantitative or qualitative?

vegetation

Koppen's classification reflects patterns in what?

C

Most of the U.S. falls under what category?

up

The ICTZ shifts up or down in the summer?

temperature and climate

The Koppen Climate Classification is based on a database of annual and monthly averages of what two things?

rain

The first four groups of Koppen's original system was classified by temperature, but the first was classified by what?

dendrochronology

studying past climates by focusing on tree rings

paleoclimatology

the study of past temperatures using ice cores, tree rings, and coral reefs

exposure

whether the slope is windward or leeward; significant to Highlands


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