Ev Sc Chapter 6 TEST

Climates near the equator are generally...

• colder

• warmer

• windy

• farther east

mass movements of surface water driven by winds and shaped by landforms...

• Ocean currents

• Equator

• Mountains

• River streams

Which of the following does NOT affect climate?

• Uneven heating of the earth by the sun

• Earth's rotation on its axis

• Physical properties of air, water, land.

• Presence of mountains

The surface near the equator...

• spins faster than the poles

• spins slower than the poles

• curls eastward

• curls westward

Air masses that move toward the equator...

• spin faster than the poles

• spin slower than the poles

• curl eastward

• curl westward

Air masses that move away from the equator...

• spin faster than the poles

• spin slower than the poles

• curl eastward

• curl westward

A large scale atmospheric convection cell in which air rises at the equator and sinks at medium latitudes is known as a...

• Macaroni cell

• Convection current

• Hadley cell

• Mark Cell

Hadley cells move energy by...

• condensation

• evaporation

• convection

• sublimation

Cities affect local climate because they create...

• microclimates

• noise and light pollution

• an unsustainable amount of resource demand

• ozone

Climate and vegetation vary with all of the following EXCEPT....

• latitude

• elevation

• biomes

• temperature