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
