Physical Geography Quiz Review

A long term pattern of temperature and precipitation is called

• Weather

• Latitude

• Climate

• Elevation

The current temperature and precipitation on any given day

• Elevation

• Latitude

• Climate

• Weather

What factor will likely NOT effect an areas climate?

• Abnormally high temperatures for 3 days in the spring

• How high or low the elevation/altitude is

• Proximity to large bodies of water

• The latitudinal location of the area

How do mountains affect weather and climate?

• It makes a cool moist side, and a dry hot side of the mountain due to water’s inability to stay in the air when the altitude increases.

• It makes it warm year round, due to the increased altitude.

• It makes a Tiaga on biome on one side, and a temperate forest on the other due to water’s inability to stay in the air when the altitude increases.

• It makes it snow year round, due to the increased altitude.

What factors affect Riverton’s climate?

• Elevation

• Latitude

• Proximity to Water

• All of These

• None of these

What is formed when plates spread and magma pushes through the cracks?

• Earthquakes

• Continental Shelves

• Volcanoes

• Mountains

• Rift Valleys

_____________ are areas where the continental surface extends under the shallow ocean water around the continents.

• Earthquakes

• Continental Shelves

• Mountains

• Volcanoes

• Rift Valleys

___________________ occur when tectonic forces cause rock inside the crust to break, resulting in sudden shaking of the crust.

• Rift Valleys

• Mountains

• Continental Shelves

• Earthquakes

• Volcanoes

_______ are formed when plates spread under continents stretching the crust until it breaks.

• Continental Shelves

• Mountains

• Earthquakes

• Rift Valleys

• Volcanoes

______ are formed when plates collide.

• Continental Shelves

• Mountains

• Earthquakes

• Volcanoes

• Rift Valleys