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