geography

How does the Gulf Stream impact climates?

• It causes places in Europe to be warm and wet.

• It causes places in Canada to be warm and wet.

• It causes places in Europe to be cold and dry.

• It causes places in Canada to be cold and dry.

Choose all correct answers.

Horse Latitudes are:

• A belt of calm air and sea between the trade winds and the westerlies.

• Winds that help horses run faster

• Calm Areas of falling air

• Wild, uncontrollable winds 60 degrees latitude moving from east to West

What affects the movement of ocean currents not at the surface?

• Temperature

• Salinity

• Wind

• Sea life

• Ocean Floor Geography

In the image of atmospheric heating, which type of heat transfer is happening at location B?

• Radiation

• Conduction

• Convection

Which location would best represent the Equator?

• A

• B

• C

The temperatures at band A are __________ than the temperatures at Band C.

• warmer

• cooler

• colder

• very cold

Temperature is affected by

• distance from continents

• distance from landforms

• distance from the equator

Which location would receive more intense, direct sunlight?

• A

• B

Winds always blow from areas of _________ pressure to areas of _________ pressure.

• high, high

• low, low

• low, high

• high, low

Due to the Coriolis effect, global winds in the southern hemisphere deflect:

• Clockwise

• Counter-clockwise