Version 2 Geography test 3

The soil forming factor which is said to make soil more than "just dirt" is the ___ factor

Biological

A small island on the equator would most likely be classified

Af

The climatic type has, by far the smallest annual temperature rang of any climate type

Af

Out of all the continents, has the most symmetrical of the distributions of major climatic types

Africa

All months have average temperatures below freezing in the ___ climatic type

EF

In the Australia the maximum precipitation in the Csa climate type occurs in the month of

June

The pedogenic regime associated with the tropical moist climates is

Laterization

A soil texture in which none of the three main soil seperates dominates the other two is called

Loam

Which pedogenic regime is most closely associated with the drier grassland of North America?

Calcification

The world region most closely associated with D climates

Canada

Water's upward movement against the flow of gravity is

Capillary

Plants which survive seasonal climatic fluctuations from year to year

Perennials

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of desert climates?

Precipitation exceeds evapotranspiration

Mature tropical soils are generally noteworthy for their ________ color.

Red

Vegetation growing alongside streams is termed ________.

Riparian

The main reason for the occurence of subtropical deserts around the world is

Subtropical high pressure

A type of species removal when vegetation is naturally replaced by another group is termed

Succession

A synonym for northern or boreal forest biome

Taiga

The transfer of moisture from plant leaves to atmosphere is

Transpiration

The Cs climatic type is always located on the side of the continents

West

An ecosystem is a (n) ___ that functions as a community

association of plants and animals

In the tropical rainforest precipitation is mainly

convectional

Xerophytes are plants of the ___ region

desert

Concerning the biosphere, the geographic viewpoint is most often concerned with ___

distributions and relationships

The effects of soil on flora and fauna are called

edaphic

All needle leaf trees are

evergreen

Of the earth's liquid water inventory, most of the fresh water is stored in the form of

glacial ice

Which of the following are NOT common in the Tropical Rainforest climate

hoofed animals

The type of water held to soil particles by adhesion and is normally unavailable to plants

hygroscopic water

City A and City B are located 500km from one another and are the same latitude. City A has a much greater annual temperature range than City B. The most likely explanation for this fact is that City A

is in a more continental climate than City B

The tropical regions in the winter season is merely the ___ period

low sun

The single most descriptive word that can be applied to Tropical Wet climates is

monotonous

The deepest soils are usually

on flat land

The _____ tropical rainforest soils is due to the climate

plentiful deep organic material

Clay has a high ________ and low ________ because it has a great many, small interstices.

porosity, permeability

The availability of moisture to plants is largely determined by

precipitation versus evaporation

An alternate term for tropical rainforest biomes is ___

selva

In the Am climates the hottest time of the year is

summer

To the Greeks, their land fell within the zone in their early classification of climate

temperate

Both steppe and tundra vegetation zones have ____ in common

the absence of trees

Mediterranean climates experience dry summers because

the position of subtropical high pressure

Based on the pH scale soils are neutral at ________.

7.0

The Intertropical Convergence is most closely associated with which of the Koppen system's major climate types

A

The presence of cold, Humboldt current and the Andes mountains create the desert

Atacama

Which climate type is known for the clear skies in the summertime

Csa

A middle latitude forested climate type located on the western edges of the major continents is the

Csb

Continentiality is a term most closely associated with which climatic type

D

Of the main Koppen climate zones, ____ is the only one which does not occur in the southern hemisphere.

D

Which of the following is not a climate type found in south america

D

Parent material is closely associated with which soil-forming factor

Geologic

Within the zone of saturation is found water known as ________

Groundwater

Which of the following is another name for a tropical rainforest

Selva

The smallest sized pieces of a soil are

clays

The very top of the saturated zone of ground water is called

the water table

Most of the "big game" mammals in Africa are naturally adapted to the ___ biome

tropical savanna