Chapter 8: Climate and Climate Change
rising
Sea levels are _________.
Highlands
There are 6 groups in the Koppen classification; which one of the six modified into the classification? (think mountains)
polar deserts
What are B climates NOT?
cyclones
What are more intense as a result of global warming?
ICTZ
What are the rains around tropical, humid climates influenced by?
dry years
What do close tree rings indicate?
forest fires
What do dark areas on tree rings indicate?
wet years
What do far tree rings indicate?
equator
What does A represent that prevents us from stating the third letter (temperature)? It only shifts around 3 degrees N or S.
group name
What does the first letter of Koppen's three letter system indicate?
rain
What does the second letter of Koppen's three letter system indicate?
temperature
What does the third letter of Koppen's three letter system indicate?
torrid, temperate, frigid
What were the three major climate classifications used by the Greeks?
CO2
When ice thaws what is released?
coral reefs
When oceans get too cold, what dies?
D
Which climate experiences all four seasons with little rain? (long cold winter, short summer, spring and fall transitions)
E
Which letter has permafrost and now temperature exceeding 50 degrees?
B
Which letter indicates dry desert climates?
H
Which letter indicates highland climates?
C
Which letter indicates mild midlatitude climates?
E
Which letter indicates polar climates?
D
Which letter indicates severe midlatitude climates?
A
Which letter indicates tropical, humid climates?
Aw
Which letters indicate a lot of rain but not everyday? (tropical Savannah climate)
Csb
Which letters indicate coastal Mediterranean climate like Los Angeles?
Af
Which letters indicate frequent rain, everyday at noon? (tropical rainforest)
Am
Which letters indicate tropical monsoonal conditions?
Wladimir Koppen
climatologist and botanist
arid
dry desert
continentally
remoteness from oceans
steppe
semiarid desert, less dry
average rain month by month
On a climograph, what does that bar graph represent?
average temperature month by month
On a climograph, what does the red line denote?
Af
Aw surrounds what?
Northern Hemisphere
D conditions are only where? (continentality)
monsoons
How does Am differ from Aw?
less rainfall
How does Aw differ from Af?
scarce and unreliable
How is rain in B zones?
2200
How many years ago was the earliest climate classification system? (used by the Greeks)
2
Ice is decreasing at _x the global rate.
cyclones, convection
In humid continental climate, winter precipitation is associated with ____________ an summer with _________.
quantitative
Is Koppen's system quantitative or qualitative?
vegetation
Koppen's classification reflects patterns in what?
C
Most of the U.S. falls under what category?
up
The ICTZ shifts up or down in the summer?
temperature and climate
The Koppen Climate Classification is based on a database of annual and monthly averages of what two things?
rain
The first four groups of Koppen's original system was classified by temperature, but the first was classified by what?
dendrochronology
studying past climates by focusing on tree rings
paleoclimatology
the study of past temperatures using ice cores, tree rings, and coral reefs
exposure
whether the slope is windward or leeward; significant to Highlands
