Geography 5-8
The site of the world's record lowest average annual precipitation is on the continent of ________.
South America
A small island on the Equator would most likely be classified ________.
Af
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 midlatitude steppe fits into the Köppen classification as ________.
BSk
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
The text makes frequent use of ________, which are charts showing average monthly temperatures and precipitation amounts.
climographs
On the average, ________ fronts move the fastest of all fronts
cold
In the atmosphere, liquid water collects around minutec particles called ________.
condensation nuclei
Clouds of vertical development include the type called ________.
cumulonimbus
Which type of cloud is the associated with a thunderstorm?
cumulonimbus
A counterclockwise atmospheric circulation in the Northern Hemisphere is known as a(n) ________.
cyclone
the pressure of a gas is proportional to its temperature and ________.
density
White frost is simply a cold weather form of ________.
dew
The transfer of moisture from land to air is termed ________.
evapotranspiration
The Bergeron process is also known as the ________ process
ice crystal formation
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
Of the regions of the United States, which has the highest incidence of tornadoes?
Central states
On a weather map, a symbol consisting of triangles arranged along one side of a line indicates a(n) ________ front
Cold
A Cfa climate exists on the southeastern coast of the United States. Which climate type exists on the southwestern coast of the United States?
Csa
Of the main Köppen climate zones, ________ is the only one that does not occur in the Southern Hemisphere
D
Which front is shown on weather maps as a line with alternating semicircles and triangles on the same side of the line?
Occluded
________ is the critical temperature at which saturation is reached
The dew point
Most of the wettest areas around the world are located in the ________.
Tropics
In most classification schemes, which principal indicator is used to delineate five zones and their subtypes?
Vegetation types
Which type of front causes many hours of steady rain BEFORE that front passes a location?
Warm
Presently, the most widely used classification system was derived by ________.
Wladimir Köppen
Over the ENTIRE past 70 million years there has been ________.
a global cooling
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
Trade winds are found ________.
at 10° north and south of the Equator
Of the list below, the coldest air is bound to be associated with a(n) ________ air mass
cP
The desert would be the obvious zone of origin of a(n) ________ air mass
cT
The part of the hurricane characterized by scattered high clouds and light winds is known as the ________.
eye
The lowercase letter symbolizing "moist, with no dry season" in the Köppen classification system is ________.
f
The damage done in New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina was mainly a result of ________.
flooding from the failure of levees
Which of the following happens LAST before tornado drops to the ground?
formation of a mesocyclone
The three climate zones of the classical Greeks were "torrid," "temperate," and "________."
frigid
Above the influence of friction, most winds follow a(n) ________
geostrophic
As a middle latitude cyclone goes through its life cycle, the warm sector ________.
gets smaller
Global dimming is caused by ________.
human release of aerosols
Oxygen isotope analysis is used when studying ________ and climate change
ice cores
The capacity of air to hold water ________.
increases as temperature increases
Evaporation ________.
is a cooling process
The altitude at which rising air reaches the dew point temperature is the ________.
lifting condensation level
The main reason for the occurrence of subtropical deserts around the world is ________.
locations of anticyclones
At Earth's surface, warm temperatures are associated with ________.
low 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 ________.
millibars
Liquid converts to gas when ________.
molecules break loose from the liquid
Which of the following is closely associated with acid rain?
motor vehicle exhaust
Wind speed is determined by ________.
northeast to southwest
Which of the following can be said to be the "death" of a midlatitude cyclone?
occlusion
Flowing air responding to the difference between higher and lower pressure is responding to the ________.
pressure gradient
Which of the following is the force that initially causes the wind to blow?
pressure gradient
If air's capacity for holding water vapor is diminished, then the relative humidity will ________.
rise
Air containing all of the water vapor it can hold is ________.
saturated
Relative humidity is "relative" to ________.
saturation
Deserts are arid; steppes are ________.
semiarid
Air that resists vertical movement is said to be ________.
stable
When neither air mass displaces the adjacent one, their boundary is called a(n) ________ front.
stationary
In the BS climatic type, the "S" stands for ________.
steppe
The "horse latitudes" are zones of minimal winds which are associated with the ________ system
subtropical high pressure
The BWh climate is "caused" by the ________.
subtropical highs
The Köppen system of climate classification is based on ________.
temperature and precipitation
The region in which the intertropical convergence can be found is ________.
the Equator
If there 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
The rising and subsequent cooling of air at the rate of 10°C per 1,000 meters is called ________.
the dry adiabatic lapse rate
The movement (track along the ground) of middle latitude cyclones is determined by ________.
the jet stream
Any buoyant parcel of air is said to exhibit ________.
the moist adiabatic lapse rate
Rising air, warmed by the release of latent heat, cools at a rate called ________.
the saturated adiabatic lapse rate
Hurricane destruction to land coastlines is made worse when this feature—not prominent in all hurricanes—is present
the storm surge
A "dynamic low" is produced by ________.
the strong rise of air
The reason winds exist is ________.
the unequal heating of the Earth system
The ________ is the boundary between near-surface and cold, deep ocean waters
thermocline
A(n) ________ is a linear zone of lower pressure between two areas of high pressure.
trough
El Niño is most closely associated with ________.
weakening of a cold current
