Unit 4

Question 1

What is continental climate?

Answer 1

Climate type that develops always from the influence of the ocean

Question 2

What is a maritime climate?

Answer 2

Climate type that is strongly influenced by the closeness of an ocean or other large water body

Question 3

What is an air mass

Answer 3

Large body of air that has some moisture and temperature conditions

Question 4

What is a prevailing winds?

Answer 4

Winds that are most commonly found in an area

Question 5

What is conventional precipitation?

Answer 5

Precipitation cause on hot summer days when heated land causes the air above it to rise by convections

Question 6

What is relief precipitation?

Answer 6

Precipitation created when an air mass rises to cross a mountain barrier

Question 7

What is cyclonic precipitation?

Answer 7

Precipitation caused when a warm, moist air mass is forced to rise by a cool, dry air mass

Question 8

What is wind?

Answer 8

Horizontal movement of air over the earth’s surface,caused by differences in air pressure

Question 9

What is rain shadow?

Answer 9

Area on the leeward side of the mountains, with little precipitation

Question 10

What are the necessary conditions for connectional precipitation?

Answer 10

Sunlight

Flat land

Question 11

Where is convectional precipitation found?

Answer 11

The pairies

Question 12

What are the necessary conditions for relief precipitation?

Answer 12

Warm moist air
Mountains
Oceans
Wind

Question 13

Where is relief precipitation found?

Answer 13

British Columbia

Question 14

What are the necessary conditions for cyclonic precipitation?

Answer 14

Warm air

Cold air

Question 15

Where is cyclonic precipitation found?

Answer 15

Mainly eastern Canada

Question 16

How many climate regions are in Canada?

Answer 16

8

Question 17

What are the names of Canada 8 climate regions?

Answer 17

The pacific Maritime region
The cordillera region
The prairie region
The taiga region 
The Arctic region
The boreal region
The south eastern region
The Atlantic maritime

Question 18

What are some things the pacific maritime region have?

Answer 18

Mild winters

Heavy precipitation during the winter

Question 19

What things does the cordilleran region have?

Answer 19

Variety of climates

Question 20

What things does the prairie region have?

Answer 20

Cold winter and hot summers

Has light precipitation mainly during the summer

Question 21

What things does the taiga region have?

Answer 21

Cold winter up to 6 months

Cool summers

Question 22

What some things the Arctic region has?

Answer 22

Extremely cold winters up to 10 months

Cool summers

Question 23

What things does the boreal region have?

Answer 23

Cold winters and warm summers

Moderate to heavy precipitation all year

Question 24

What things does the south eastern region have?

Answer 24

Warm to hot summers

Cool to cold winters

Question 25

What things does the Atlantic maritime region have?

Answer 25

Cool to warm summer | Cool to cold winters

Question 26

What is a influencing factor in the pacific maritime region?

Answer 26

It’s nearness to a water bodies

Question 27

What is a influencing factor In the cordilleran region?

Answer 27

By mountains and altitude

Question 28

What is a influencing factor in the prairie region?

Answer 28

By winds

Question 29

What is a influencing factor in the Arctic region

Answer 29

Latitude

Question 30

What is a influencing factor in the south eastern region

Answer 30

Warm moist air in the summer | Cold arctic air in winter

Question 31

What is a influencing factor in the Atlantic maritime region?

Answer 31

Nearness to water bodies

Question 32

What is natural vegetation?

Answer 32

Natural vegetation refers to plants that grow without human interference

Question 33

How can you identify a leached soil?

Answer 33

You can identify it by it often thin, top soil layer

Question 34

What is soil?

Answer 34

Surface layer of earth, made up of minerals, organic materials , air and water

Question 35

What are coniferous trees?

Answer 35

Trees with cones and often needle like leaves

Question 36

What is the tundra?

Answer 36

It is the northernmost vegetation region, found in areas to cold for trees to grow

Question 37

What is humus?

Answer 37

It is a dark,upper layer of soil made up of partially decayed plant material

Question 38

What are deciduous trees?

Answer 38

broad- leaves trees that shed their leaves during fall

Question 39

What does leaching mean?

Answer 39

The removal of minerals from soil by water as it move downward through the soil

Question 40

What is the boreal forest?

Answer 40

It is a coniferous forest that stretches from east to west

Question 41

What is latitude and how does it affect temperature?

Answer 41

The baseline of latitude is the equator and the farther a place is from the equator the colder it gets

Question 42

What is altitude?

Answer 42

Altitude is a short wave of radiation from the sun that is re emitted into the atmosphere and heats the earth( the higher your u go in altitude the colder it gets

Question 43

How does water bodies affect the climate?

Answer 43

The water gains and loses heat much faster then land so water bodies will affect the climate around it called the maritime effect

Question 44

Does wind affect the climate?

Answer 44

The wind affects both the temperature and precipitation