Climate Factors

As you go to the top of a mountain, what happens to temperature?

• Nothing
• It increases
• It decreases
• It goes up and down

If your latitude is close to 90 degrees North, you live in which zone?

• Polar Zone
• Temperate zone
• Tropical zone
• Equatorial zone

The land on the ______ side of the mountain range is in the rain shadow.

• Cold
• windward
• Cloud covered
• leeward

Climate is

• the further you get from the equator
• the higher you go, the colder it gets
• the conditions of the atmosphere at a certain place and time.
• the average weather conditions of an area over a long period of time.

How does higher altitude affect climate?

• the higher you go above sea level, the colder it gets.
• The further you get from the equator, the colder it gets.
• The closer you get to the equator, the hotter it gets.
• The process by which heat from the sun is trapped near Earth's surface.

The seasons are a result of Earth’s tilted axis. Which part of Earth’s axis is tilted toward the sun in June. 

• Northern Hemisphere
• Southern Hemisphere
• Western Hemisphere
• Neither is tilted it's centered in the equator

In which climate region is the temperature usually at or below freezing? 

• Highlands
• Ice cap
• Marine west coast
• Subartic

The Mojave Desert and Death Valley are two examples of what type of climate found in California? 

• mediterranean
• humid subtropical 
• tundra
• arid

Permanently frozen soil found in the tundra climate region is called_________________

• permafrost
• frosoil
• tundraearth 
• foreverhard

Which side of a mountain range is closer to the ocean?

• leeward
• windward
• rainshadow
• eastside