Physical Geography Chapter 8 & 9

The world's highest average annual wind speed can be found

in Antarctica

About_____percent of all evaporated moisture comes from the land surface.

14

The furthest north citrus can be grown in North America is at__North latitude in the California Cs climate type.

38°

The Arctic Ocean contains about ___percent of Earth's total ocean water.

4

If all of Earth's glacial water was converted to liquid, the amount would be sufficient to supply the world's main rivers for___ years.

900

Which of the following climate types takes up the most land area?

B

The climatic type for the desert area is

BW

___is making the oceans progressively acidic.

Carbonic acid

Bothe great distances from oceanic moisture sources and blockage of moist flow by topography are both associated with dryness in the ____desert.

Central Asian

The classic Marine west-coast climate is the ___

Cfb

Which climate type is known for clear skies in the summertime?

Csa

Of the main Koppen climate zones_____is the only one that does not occur in the Southern Hemisphere.

D

The highest tide occur when the

Earth, Sun, and Moon are lined up

Melt ponds an moulins are closely associated with

Greenland

North America's largest lake is

Lake Superior

The world's longest river is the

Nile

Which ocean is surrounded by the most of the world's major volcanoes?

Pacific

In mountainous areas, which term refers to the vertical zone of "frozen land" at high elevation?

Tierra helada

The longest river in Europe is

Volga

The world's greatest annual average temperature range is in a Dfd climate in

Yakutsk, Siberia

Typically, a(n)________in the confine water zone is a sloping or dipping layer that reaches to, or almost to, the surface at some location, where it can absorb infiltrating water.

aquifer

In an Af climate, what time of day is precipitation most likely

at mid-afternoon

Whenever there is an active well, the water table will be drawn downward to a

cone of depression

Which of the following helps determine past climate on the basis of tree rings?

dendrochronology

The movement of a wave across the surface of the ocean is a movement of ________ rather than matter.

energy

Lakes are common in areas which have been recently

glaciated

The primary vertical motion of all ocean water is caused by

gravity

GRACE is a German/NASA project that monitors ________.

groundwater levels

By some estimates, the annual average extent of Northern Hemisphere sea ice has____since the 1950s.

halved

City A and City B are located 500 km 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

Biological water (water in living organism) constitutes what percentage of water in the Earth system?

less than 1%

Subarctic (Dfc, Dfd, Dwc, Dwd) climates, which of the following explains the presence of continuous, thin snow cover for many months of the year?

low evapotranspiration rates

In the Df and Dw climates, winter precipitation, mainly originates from

midlatitude cyclones

Most of Earth's water is stored

on the surface in liquid form

Which of the below best describes water moving through Earth material because of the influence of gravity?

percolation

The poleward limits of the Aw climate are approximately equivalent to

poleward maximum migration of the ITC

Deserts are arid; steppes are ________.

seminarid

In terms of underground water, the waterless zone generally begins

several kilometers under the soil

The Koppen system of climate classification is based on

temperature and precipitation

Tropical monsoon climates are found where

the ITC comes overhead in teh summer

The tides migrate following___course around the Earth.

the Moon's

The difference between swamps and marshes is mainly one of

trees versus grasslands

Thawing permafrost sometimes degenerates into ________.

wet thermokarst