Unit 12 Climate

The climate of a location can be described by its

• Average air temperature

• The amount of precipitation and when it falls

• Humidity

• All of the above

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List three factors that determine climate

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What is weather?

• The temporary state of the atmosphere in a region

• Not affected by the temperature in a region

• The permanent state of the atmosphere in a region

• None of the above

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Compared to climate, weather is

• variable

• guaranteed

• easier to predict

• not important

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Climate is the temporary state of the atmosphere

• True

• False

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is the long-term average of temperature for a region

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The equator receives the most solar radiation over the course of a year.

• True

• False

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At ______ the sun never rises very high in the sky.

• The midlattitudes

• the poles

• the equator

• all of the above

Name the characteristic of climate that is most affected by changes in latitude

• Temperature

• pressure

• density

• all of the above

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What is the range of latitude from the equator to the poles?

• 0 to 90

• 5 to 90

• 10 to 90

• 10 to 110