Chapter 8: Climate and Climate Change
Wladimir Köppen
Presently, the most widely used classification system was derived by who?
Csa
A Cfa climate exists on the southeastern coast of the United States. Which climate type exists on the southwestern coast of the United States?
Af
A small island on the Equator would most likely be classified ________.
ice cores
Oxygen isotope analysis is used when studying ________ and climate change
Semiarid
Deserts are arid; steppes are ________.
5
For many centuries before the present one, scholars believed that the world had how many climatic zones.
Vegetation types
In most classification schemes, which principal indicator is used to delineate five zones and their subtypes?
Steppe
In the BS climatic type, the "S" stands for ________.
D
Of the main Köppen climate zones, ________ is the only one that does not occur in the Southern Hemisphere
Asia
On which continent is the intertropical convergence furthest from the equator in the summer season?
global cooling
Over the ENTIRE past 70 million years there has been a global cooling or warming? (Examine chart on previous slide)
temperature and precipitation
The Köppen system of climate classification is based on ________.
Canada
The area (country) most closely associated with D climates is ________.
BW
The climatic type for the desert areas is ________.
melting of glaciers
The current rise in global sea level can be attributed to ________.
f
The lowercase letter symbolizing "moist, with no dry season" in the Köppen classification system is ________.
BSk
The midlatitude steppe fits into the Köppen classification as ________.
Atacama
The presence of the cold Humboldt current and the Andes Mountains help to create the coastal ________ Desert
South Africa
The site of the world's record lowest average annual precipitation is on the continent of ________.
climographs
The text makes frequent use of ________, which are charts showing average monthly temperatures and precipitation amounts.
frigid
The three climate zones of the classical Greeks were "torrid," "temperate," and "________."
Am
The tropical monsoon climate bears a letter classification of ________.
