Physical Geography Chapter 8
The area most closely associated with D climates is ________.
Canada
The B climates are dry most usually because of lack of ________.
uplift in the air
The world record highest one- day rainfall is ________ centimeters (2.54 centimeters = 1 inch).
188
The mountain, or H climates, exhibit a vertical temperature decrease on the order of ________°C per 300 meters of elevation increase.
2
For many centuries before the present one, scholars believed that the world had ________ climatic zones.
5
Which of the following average annual precipitation totals is CLOSEST to that expected in an Icecap climate?
<25 cm
A small island on the Equator would most likely be classified ________.
A f
The ________ climatic type has, by far, the smallest annual temperature range of any climatic type.
A f
The world's largest expanse of middle latitude dry climates is on the continent of ________.
Asia
This desert is in a "double rain shadow."This desert is in a "double rain shadow."
Atacama
Both great distances from oceanic moisture sources and blockage of moist flow by topography are both associated with dryness in the ________ desert.
Central Asian
The desire to simplify, organize, and generalize the vast array of climatic data into a comprehensible system that helps us understand the distribution of climates over Earth leads to ________.
Classification
Presently, the most widely used classification system was derived by ________.
Wladimir Köppen
O ver the E N TIRE past 70 million years there has been ________.
a global cooling
In midlatitude desert (BWk) climates, the ________ temperature is greater than in subtropical desert (BWh) climates.
annual range of
The Köppen system of climatic classification ________.
us the one used in your textbook
In an Af climate, what time of day is precipitation most likely?
at mid afternoon
The textbook uses climographs. Climographs are useful in ________.
classifying climate
The world's highest average annual wind speed can be found ________.
in Antarctica
The classification scheme of the ancient Greeks was discarded ________.
in the 20th century
In the Tropical Monsoonal climates, summer is NOT the warmest season because of ________.
increased cloudiness
The main reason for the occurrence of subtropical deserts around the world is ________.
locations of anticyclones
In tropical regions the "winter" season is merely the ________ period.
low son
Which of the following climate types is found at the highest latitudes?
marine west coast
Which of the following climates does NOT have a summer wetter than its winter?
mediterranean
The greatest day-to-day and seasonal contrasts of climate are found in the ________ climates.
middle lattitude
The single most descriptive word that can be applied to Tropical Wet climates is ________.
monotonous
Throughout the ET climates, ________ is/are very prevalent.
radiation fogs
Deserts are arid; steppes are ________.
semiarid
Midlatitude deserts experience a ________ maximum in precipitation.
summer
