Climate Quiz Review

Large Bodies of water tend to make surrounding areas

• hotter

• colder

• dryer

• more moderate

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The windward side is often called the wet side because air climbs and cools causing it to condense creating ____.

• dry air

• precipitation

• a rain shadow

• sunny skies

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The leeward side of a mountain is often referred to as the ____ side because air warms as it goes down the mountain evaporating the moisture.

• Wet

• dry

• cloudy

• humid

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As you climb a mountain, the temperature _____ because you are moving up in the atmosphere.

• increases

• decreases

• stabalizes

• increases and decreases

______ carry solar energy away from the equator to far northern and southern latitudes.

• Global winds

• Large bodies of water

• Ocean currents

• Latitude

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As you move farther from the equator _____ decreases.

• Moisture levels

• temperature

• air pressure

• global winds

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Winds that blow from the poles to 60 degrees latitude.

• Westerlies

• Polar Easterlies

• Trade winds

• doldrums

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Norway and Greenland are at similar latitudes but a lot more people live in Norway because

• they like the culture

• they want to live by the sea

• ocean currents warm the area

• Ocean currents cool the area

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Michigan has cooler summers and warmer winters than other states with the same latitude because

• The great lakes warm the area

• The great lakes cool the area

• The great lakes dry the area

• The great lakes moderate the area

The equator

• gets the same solar energy all year

• gets different amounts of solar energy throughout the year

• is cooler than the poles

• gets less direct solar energy throughout the year.

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