test for geografia

The site of the world's record lowest average annual precipitation is on the continent of ________.

South America

In the BS climatic type, the "S" stands for ____

Steppe

The tropical monsoon climate bears a letter classification of _______

Am

On which continent is the intertropical convergence furthest from the equator in the summer season?

Asia

The presence of the cold Humboldt current and the Andes Mountains help to create the coastal ________ Desert

Atacama

The climatic type for the desert areas is ________.

BW

The area most closely associated with D climates is ________.

Canada

Among cloud types, those that occur at the highest altitudes are the

cirrus clouds

The text makes frequent use of ________, which are charts showing average monthly temperatures and precipitation amounts.

climographs

In the atmosphere, liquid water collects around minute particles called ________.

condensation nuclei

evaporation is a

cooling process

a counterclockwise atmospheric circulation in the Northern Hemisphere is known as a

cyclone

White frost is simply a cold weather form of _______

dew

The rising and subsequent cooling of air at the rate of 10°C per 1,000 meters is called ________.

dry adiabatic lapse rate

the transfer of moisture from land to air is termed as

evapotranspiration

The Bergeron Process is also known as the

ice crystal formation process

The correct designation for a hurricane is as a(n) ________

tropical cyclone

For many centuries before the present one, scholars believed that the world had ________ climatic zones.

5

Over the ENTIRE past 70 million years there has been ____.

A global cooling

The three climate zones of the classical Greeks were "torrid," "temperate," and "________."

Frigid

Presently, the most widely used classification system was derived by ________.

Wladimir Köppen

sinking air that diverges when it reaches Earth's surface is closely associated with

anticyclones

Gas molecules in the lower atmosphere

are readily compressed and heated

Deserts are

arid

trade winds are found

at 10°N and south of the Equator

The lowercase letter symbolizing "moist, with no dry season" in the Köppen classification system is ________.

f

above the influence of friction, most winds follow a

geostrophic

global dimming is caused by

human release of aerosols

Oxygen isotope analysis is used when studying ________ and ____________

ice cores and climate change

the pressure of a gas is proportional to

its temperature and density

the altitude at which rising air reaches the dew point temperature is the

lifting condensation level

at earth's surface, warmer temperatures are associated with

lower pressure

When air is heated it expands and

lowers its pressure

The current rise in global sea level can be attributed to ________.

melting of glaciers

the basic unit of pressure mapped on weather maps is

milibars

Liquid converts to gas when _______

molecules break loose from the liquid

wind speed from the north pole is from ____ to ____?

northeast to southwest

What is the force that initially causessss the wind to blow?

pressure gradient

flowing air responding to the difference between higher and lower pressure is responding to the

pressure gradient

relative humidity is "relative" to

saturation

Steppes are

semiarid

air that resists vertical movement is said to be

stable

the "horse latitudes" are zones of minimal winds which are associated with

subtropical high pressure systems

if they were no continents and the Earth did not rotate, the surface wind patterns would be simple . Surface winds would blow from

the North in the Northern Hemisphere

_____ is the critical temperature at which saturtation is reached

the dew point

the region in which the intertropical convergence can be found is

the equator

A "dynamic low" is produced by

the strong rise of air

most of the wettest area around the world are located in

the tropics

the ______ is the boundary between near surface and cold, deep ocean waters

thermocline

A __________ is a linear zone of lower pressure between two areas of high pressure

trough

the reasons winds exist is the

unequal heating of the Earth system

In most classification schemes, which principal indicator is used to delineate five zones and their subtypes?

vegetation types

El Nino is most closely associated with

weakening of a cold current