Geography 5-8

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

South America

A small island on the Equator would most likely be classified ________.

Af

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 midlatitude steppe fits into the Köppen classification as ________.

BSk

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

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

climographs

On the average, ________ fronts move the fastest of all fronts

cold

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

condensation nuclei

Clouds of vertical development include the type called ________.

cumulonimbus

Which type of cloud is the associated with a thunderstorm?

cumulonimbus

A counterclockwise atmospheric circulation in the Northern Hemisphere is known as a(n) ________.

cyclone

the pressure of a gas is proportional to its temperature and ________.

density

White frost is simply a cold weather form of ________.

dew

The transfer of moisture from land to air is termed ________.

evapotranspiration

The Bergeron process is also known as the ________ process

ice crystal formation

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

Of the regions of the United States, which has the highest incidence of tornadoes?

Central states

On a weather map, a symbol consisting of triangles arranged along one side of a line indicates a(n) ________ front

Cold

A Cfa climate exists on the southeastern coast of the United States. Which climate type exists on the southwestern coast of the United States?

Csa

Of the main Köppen climate zones, ________ is the only one that does not occur in the Southern Hemisphere

D

Which front is shown on weather maps as a line with alternating semicircles and triangles on the same side of the line?

Occluded

________ is the critical temperature at which saturation is reached

The dew point

Most of the wettest areas around the world are located in the ________.

Tropics

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

Vegetation types

Which type of front causes many hours of steady rain BEFORE that front passes a location?

Warm

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

Wladimir Köppen

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

a global cooling

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

Trade winds are found ________.

at 10° north and south of the Equator

Of the list below, the coldest air is bound to be associated with a(n) ________ air mass

cP

The desert would be the obvious zone of origin of a(n) ________ air mass

cT

The part of the hurricane characterized by scattered high clouds and light winds is known as the ________.

eye

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

f

The damage done in New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina was mainly a result of ________.

flooding from the failure of levees

Which of the following happens LAST before tornado drops to the ground?

formation of a mesocyclone

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

frigid

Above the influence of friction, most winds follow a(n) ________

geostrophic

As a middle latitude cyclone goes through its life cycle, the warm sector ________.

gets smaller

Global dimming is caused by ________.

human release of aerosols

Oxygen isotope analysis is used when studying ________ and climate change

ice cores

The capacity of air to hold water ________.

increases as temperature increases

Evaporation ________.

is a cooling process

The altitude at which rising air reaches the dew point temperature is the ________.

lifting condensation level

The main reason for the occurrence of subtropical deserts around the world is ________.

locations of anticyclones

At Earth's surface, warm temperatures are associated with ________.

low 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 ________.

millibars

Liquid converts to gas when ________.

molecules break loose from the liquid

Which of the following is closely associated with acid rain?

motor vehicle exhaust

Wind speed is determined by ________.

northeast to southwest

Which of the following can be said to be the "death" of a midlatitude cyclone?

occlusion

Flowing air responding to the difference between higher and lower pressure is responding to the ________.

pressure gradient

Which of the following is the force that initially causes the wind to blow?

pressure gradient

If air's capacity for holding water vapor is diminished, then the relative humidity will ________.

rise

Air containing all of the water vapor it can hold is ________.

saturated

Relative humidity is "relative" to ________.

saturation

Deserts are arid; steppes are ________.

semiarid

Air that resists vertical movement is said to be ________.

stable

When neither air mass displaces the adjacent one, their boundary is called a(n) ________ front.

stationary

In the BS climatic type, the "S" stands for ________.

steppe

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

subtropical high pressure

The BWh climate is "caused" by the ________.

subtropical highs

The Köppen system of climate classification is based on ________.

temperature and precipitation

The region in which the intertropical convergence can be found is ________.

the Equator

If there 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

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

the dry adiabatic lapse rate

The movement (track along the ground) of middle latitude cyclones is determined by ________.

the jet stream

Any buoyant parcel of air is said to exhibit ________.

the moist adiabatic lapse rate

Rising air, warmed by the release of latent heat, cools at a rate called ________.

the saturated adiabatic lapse rate

Hurricane destruction to land coastlines is made worse when this feature—not prominent in all hurricanes—is present

the storm surge

A "dynamic low" is produced by ________.

the strong rise of air

The reason winds exist is ________.

the unequal heating of the Earth system

The ________ is the boundary between near-surface and cold, deep ocean waters

thermocline

A(n) ________ is a linear zone of lower pressure between two areas of high pressure.

trough

El Niño is most closely associated with ________.

weakening of a cold current