Version 2 Geography test 3
The soil forming factor which is said to make soil more than "just dirt" is the ___ factor
Biological
A small island on the equator would most likely be classified
Af
The climatic type has, by far the smallest annual temperature rang of any climate type
Af
Out of all the continents, has the most symmetrical of the distributions of major climatic types
Africa
All months have average temperatures below freezing in the ___ climatic type
EF
In the Australia the maximum precipitation in the Csa climate type occurs in the month of
June
The pedogenic regime associated with the tropical moist climates is
Laterization
A soil texture in which none of the three main soil seperates dominates the other two is called
Loam
Which pedogenic regime is most closely associated with the drier grassland of North America?
Calcification
The world region most closely associated with D climates
Canada
Water's upward movement against the flow of gravity is
Capillary
Plants which survive seasonal climatic fluctuations from year to year
Perennials
Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of desert climates?
Precipitation exceeds evapotranspiration
Mature tropical soils are generally noteworthy for their ________ color.
Red
Vegetation growing alongside streams is termed ________.
Riparian
The main reason for the occurence of subtropical deserts around the world is
Subtropical high pressure
A type of species removal when vegetation is naturally replaced by another group is termed
Succession
A synonym for northern or boreal forest biome
Taiga
The transfer of moisture from plant leaves to atmosphere is
Transpiration
The Cs climatic type is always located on the side of the continents
West
An ecosystem is a (n) ___ that functions as a community
association of plants and animals
In the tropical rainforest precipitation is mainly
convectional
Xerophytes are plants of the ___ region
desert
Concerning the biosphere, the geographic viewpoint is most often concerned with ___
distributions and relationships
The effects of soil on flora and fauna are called
edaphic
All needle leaf trees are
evergreen
Of the earth's liquid water inventory, most of the fresh water is stored in the form of
glacial ice
Which of the following are NOT common in the Tropical Rainforest climate
hoofed animals
The type of water held to soil particles by adhesion and is normally unavailable to plants
hygroscopic water
City A and City B are located 500km from one another and are the same latitude. City A has a much greater annual temperature range than City B. The most likely explanation for this fact is that City A
is in a more continental climate than City B
The tropical regions in the winter season is merely the ___ period
low sun
The single most descriptive word that can be applied to Tropical Wet climates is
monotonous
The deepest soils are usually
on flat land
The _____ tropical rainforest soils is due to the climate
plentiful deep organic material
Clay has a high ________ and low ________ because it has a great many, small interstices.
porosity, permeability
The availability of moisture to plants is largely determined by
precipitation versus evaporation
An alternate term for tropical rainforest biomes is ___
selva
In the Am climates the hottest time of the year is
summer
To the Greeks, their land fell within the zone in their early classification of climate
temperate
Both steppe and tundra vegetation zones have ____ in common
the absence of trees
Mediterranean climates experience dry summers because
the position of subtropical high pressure
Based on the pH scale soils are neutral at ________.
7.0
The Intertropical Convergence is most closely associated with which of the Koppen system's major climate types
A
The presence of cold, Humboldt current and the Andes mountains create the desert
Atacama
Which climate type is known for the clear skies in the summertime
Csa
A middle latitude forested climate type located on the western edges of the major continents is the
Csb
Continentiality is a term most closely associated with which climatic type
D
Of the main Koppen climate zones, ____ is the only one which does not occur in the southern hemisphere.
D
Which of the following is not a climate type found in south america
D
Parent material is closely associated with which soil-forming factor
Geologic
Within the zone of saturation is found water known as ________
Groundwater
Which of the following is another name for a tropical rainforest
Selva
The smallest sized pieces of a soil are
clays
The very top of the saturated zone of ground water is called
the water table
Most of the "big game" mammals in Africa are naturally adapted to the ___ biome
tropical savanna
