Climate

Question 1

What are two major factors that scientists use to classify climates?

Answer 1

Temperature

Precipitation

Question 2

List the six major climate regions

Answer 2

Tropical Rainy
Dry
Temperate Marine
Temperate Continental
Polar
Highlands

Question 3

Is the following sentence true or false? Climate regions are marked by clear boundaries.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

It has a rainy season and a dry season
It is hot year round
Grasslands grow in this type of climate

Answer 4

Tropical wet and dry

Question 5

It has heavy rainfall year round
It is hot year round
Rainforest grow in this type of climate

Answer 5

Tropical wet

Question 6

Arid regions which get less than 25cm of rain every year

Answer 6

Deserts

Question 7

Where are arid climates in the U.S.?

Answer 7

Portions of California
The Great Basin
and the Southwest

Question 8

An area that is dry but gets enough rainfall for short grasses and low bushes to grow

Answer 8

Steppe

Question 9

Where we live

Answer 9

Humid subtropical
Wet and warm
Southeastern U.S.

Question 10

They have extremes of temperature

They are found in the Northeastern U.S.

Answer 10

Temperate continental

Question 11

Is the following sentence true or false? The polar climate is the coldest climate regions?

Answer 11

True

Question 12

Is the following sentence true or false? Plants cannot grow in ice cap climates?

Answer 12

False

Question 13

What types of plants grow in ice caps?

Answer 13

Lichens and small plants

Question 14

Permanently frozen tundra soil is called?

Answer 14

Permafrost

Question 15

Evidence of climate changes in history

Answer 15

Tree rings
Pollen
Fossils

Question 16

Is the following sentence true or false? A thin tree ring indicates that the year was warm or wet?

Answer 16

False
Thin = Dry and cool
Thick = Warm and wet

Question 17

Scientists can infer information about ancient climates by identifying the type of _____ deposited by plants long ago.

Answer 17

Pollen

Question 18

How has volcanic activity possibly affected solar radiation and temperatures?

Answer 18

Scientists think that the gases and ash filter out some of the incoming solar radiation, and may lower temperatures

Question 19

What did Kopen consider about classifying climates?

Answer 19

Vegetation

Question 20

How long is an earth year?

Answer 20

365.25 days

Question 21

How long is an earth day?

Answer 21

24 Hours

Question 22

What planets day is longer than its year?

Answer 22

Venus

Question 23

Most of the land on earth was once part of a single continent
Continents now in the polar zones were once near the equator

Answer 23

Movement of earths continents (Pangaea)

Question 24

Is the following sentence true or false? It is colder in the winter in the northern hemisphere because earth is farther from the sun?

Answer 24

False

Question 25

Earth's axis?

Answer 25

Always points in the same direction | 23.5 degrees

Question 26

All the continents were once connected

Answer 26

Pangaea