Factors that effect a regions temperature include...

• Latitude, Longitude, Altitude and Ocean Currents

• Latitude, Ocean Currents, and Altitude

• The suns rotation around earth

• Longitude, Latitude, and Ocean currents

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Areas with a low degree of latitude are closer to the...

• polar zones

• equator

• north pole and south pole

• prime meridian

The temperature zones on earth include...

• Tropical, temperate, and polar

• Tropical, equatorial, north pole

• Polar, tropical, and desert

• equator, tropic of Capricorn, and tropic of cancer

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Coastal (marine) regions typically have less severe changes in temperature due to the ocean currents near by.

• True

• False

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Areas with higher altitudes have...

• Lower temperatures

• Higher temperatures

• Greater oxygen levels

• More insects

When the southern hemisphere is in its winter (colder) months, the northern hemisphere is tilted...

• towards the sun

• away from the sun

• towards the moon

• towards the moon but away from the sun

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Sunlight hits the earth more directly...

• at the equator

• near the poles

• in the temperate zone

• untrue, it hits earth evenly

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The average conditions of the atmosphere over a long period of time is called

• Climate

• Weather

• Frontal precipitation

• None of these

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What primarily determines a regions climate?

• Temperature, population, ocean currents

• Temperature and precipitation

• Temperature, precipitation, and altitude

• Temperature, precipitation, and latitude

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Long term records of temperature and precipitation in an area can be used to predict a regions ...

• climate

• weather

• topography

• watershed

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