Unit 1: Physical Patterns and Processes

How does the Earth-Sun relationship affect the climate of different regions of the world?

• Different areas of the globe receive differing amounts of sunlight

• Warm ocean currents bring monsoon rains to some regions

• Summers & Winters are longer than fall & spring seasons

• Eastern & Western hemispheres have seasonal differences

________ is the physical process that is responsible for this landform.

• Erosion

• Monsoons

• Volcanic Activity

• Tectonic Divergence

In the this situation, how would this barrier affect the climate on the leeward side?

• Temperatures would be warm and the amount of precipitation would be low.

• Temperatures would be warm and the amount of precipitation would be high

• Temperatures would be very cold and the amount of precipitation would be high

• Temperatures would be very cold and the amount of precipitation would be high

The Landforms listed in the box are created by the physical process of ______________

• Plate tectonics

• Wind erosion

• Weathering

• Soil-building

___________________ is most directly responsible for the variation in seasonal weather patterns

• Phases of the Moon

• Tilt of the Earth's Axis

• Distance from the Sun

• Rotation of the Earth on its Axis

Physical process of Erosion is ______________________.

• wearing down of rocks by wind and water

• breaking of the Earth's crust that causes a fault

• movement of weathered materials by wind, ice, or water

• mixing of weathered rock with decayed plant & animal material

Elevation influences temperature by ________________.

• Higher elevations experience cooler temperatures compared to lower elevations

• Higher elevations experience warmer temperatures compared to lower elevations

• Higher elevations experience very little temperature variations compared to lower elevations

• Higher elevations experience varied temperatures depending on proximity to oceans.

What is the study of the patterns and processes related to Earth's surface?

• Human Geography

• Physical Processes

• Weathering

• Physical Geography

What is the regular movement of the Earth's water from ocean, to air, to ground, and back to the ocean

• Weathering

• Water Cycle

• Weather

• Climate

What is this?

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• compass rose
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