test for geografia
The site of the world's record lowest average annual precipitation is on the continent of ________.
South America
In the BS climatic type, the "S" stands for ____
Steppe
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 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 clouds
The text makes frequent use of ________, which are charts showing average monthly temperatures and precipitation amounts.
climographs
In the atmosphere, liquid water collects around minute particles called ________.
condensation nuclei
evaporation is a
cooling process
a counterclockwise atmospheric circulation in the Northern Hemisphere is known as a
cyclone
White frost is simply a cold weather form of _______
dew
The rising and subsequent cooling of air at the rate of 10°C per 1,000 meters is called ________.
dry adiabatic lapse rate
the transfer of moisture from land to air is termed as
evapotranspiration
The Bergeron Process is also known as the
ice crystal formation process
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
Over the ENTIRE past 70 million years there has been ____.
A global cooling
The three climate zones of the classical Greeks were "torrid," "temperate," and "________."
Frigid
Presently, the most widely used classification system was derived by ________.
Wladimir Köppen
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
Deserts are
arid
trade winds are found
at 10°N and south of the Equator
The lowercase letter symbolizing "moist, with no dry season" in the Köppen classification system is ________.
f
above the influence of friction, most winds follow a
geostrophic
global dimming is caused by
human release of aerosols
Oxygen isotope analysis is used when studying ________ and ____________
ice cores and climate change
the pressure of a gas is proportional to
its temperature and density
the altitude at which rising air reaches the dew point temperature is the
lifting condensation level
at earth's surface, warmer temperatures are associated with
lower 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
milibars
Liquid converts to gas when _______
molecules break loose from the liquid
wind speed from the north pole is from ____ to ____?
northeast to southwest
What is the force that initially causessss the wind to blow?
pressure gradient
flowing air responding to the difference between higher and lower pressure is responding to the
pressure gradient
relative humidity is "relative" to
saturation
Steppes are
semiarid
air that resists vertical movement is said to be
stable
the "horse latitudes" are zones of minimal winds which are associated with
subtropical high pressure systems
if they 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
_____ is the critical temperature at which saturtation is reached
the dew point
the region in which the intertropical convergence can be found is
the equator
A "dynamic low" is produced by
the strong rise of air
most of the wettest area around the world are located in
the tropics
the ______ is the boundary between near surface and cold, deep ocean waters
thermocline
A __________ is a linear zone of lower pressure between two areas of high pressure
trough
the reasons winds exist is the
unequal heating of the Earth system
In most classification schemes, which principal indicator is used to delineate five zones and their subtypes?
vegetation types
El Nino is most closely associated with
weakening of a cold current