Two students decided to study the effect of elevation on climate. Red Mountain has an elevation of 6,120 feet. Green Mountain has an elevation of 4,525 feet. The two mountains are land locked and at the same latitude. What would the students most likely find out if they studied climate at the tops of the mountains?

Red Mountain has colder temperatures than Green Mountain.

Red Mountain is sunnier than Green Mountain.

There is almost no difference between Red Mountain and Green Mountain.

Red Mountain has warmer temperatures than Green Mountain.

Red Mountain is cloudier than Green Mountain.

Two cities are located at about the same latitude. City A is located on an island in the ocean, and city B is located in the middle of a continent. Both cities are at the same elevation above sea level. All other aspects of their physical environment are the same. Which is probably true about cities A and B?

City A would have cooler summers and warmer winters than city B.

The two climates would be the same because the cities are at the same latitude and elevation.

City A would have warmer summers and cooler winters than city B.

City A would have less precipitation than city B.

One reason Spokane has colder winters than Everett is:

Everett is at a lower elevation than Spokane.

Everett is closer to the equator than Spokane.

Spokane is closer to the arctic than Everett.

Spokane is a larger city than Everett.

What is a rain shadow?

The leeward side of the mountains that gets much less precipitation.

The areas that don’t get much rain because of shadows.

The windward side of a mountain where there is less precipitation.

Places where the rain leaves shadows, making areas appear darker.

Suppose you have two cities surrounded by land with similar elevation and geographic features. The main difference between them is that city A is at 20 degrees N. latitude and city B is at 60 degrees N. latitude. How will the climates of the two cities differ?

City A with the lower latitude will be warmer.

The climates will be similar because they are not near the ocean. City A with the lower latitude will be warmer.

City A will have more extreme weather- hotter summers and colder winters.

City B with the higher latitude will be warmer.

City B will have more extreme weather- hotter summers and colder winters.

In the heat transfer lab, you generated a graph that may have looked something like this. Container A was filled with gravel and container B was filled with water. Which of the following would be a correct conclusion for your experiment?

Gravel heats up and cools down faster than water.

Gravel heats up faster and cools down slower than water.

Gravel heats up slower and cools down faster than water.

Gravel heats up and cools down slower than water.

Gravel and water heat and cool at the same rate.

In the heat transfer lab, you generated a graph that may have looked something like this. Container A was filled with gravel and container B was filled with water. In this experiment, the manipulated variable is the:

type of material in each container.

temperature recorded in each container.

In the heat transfer lab, you generated a graph that may have looked something like this. Container A was filled with gravel and container B was filled with water. In this experiment, the responding variable is the:

temperature recorded in each container.

type of material in each container.

In the heat transfer lab, you generated a graph that may have looked something like this. Container A was filled with gravel and container B was filled with water. In this experiment, an important controlled variable is the:

distance from light source for each container.

temperature recorded in each container.

person reading the thermometer.

Which of the following statements is true of average global temperature?

It has cooled and warmed several times over the past few hundred thousand years.

It has only started changing in the past few hundred years.

It has been cooling steadily for the past hundred thousand years.

It has been warming steadily for the past hundred thousand years.

We know nothing about global temperature before people set up weather stations around the world in the 1800s.

The main reason scientists study paleoclimates is because:

it helps us better understand what can happen to climate in the future.

it helps them know when certain animals went extinct.

they are interesting to know about.

they want to know what the weather was like when they were born.

ice cores in Antarctica are hard to drill.

While studying tree rings from a Douglas Fir tree, you notice that some of the rings are thicker than others. What probably caused the thicker rings?

The tree grew faster because of warmer temperatures.

The tree got fatter as it got older.

As the tree became older it absorbed more nutrients.

The tree grew slower because of lack of sunlight.

Tree rings tell us the type of species but nothing else.

Why do tree rings come in pairs with one light ring and one dark ring?

Light rings are spring growth and dark rings are summer/fall growth.

Light rings are warm climates and dark rings are cool climates.

The light/dark rings keep the nutrients in the tree balanced.

Light rings are cool climates and dark rings are warm climates.

The light/dark rings represent a 2-year growth cycle.

Bubbles of air found in ice cores can tell us about:

the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

the shape of foraminifera shells.

how many fossil fuels have been burned over time.

types of pollen during a specific time period.

ancient temperature, if a thermometer is put in the bubble.

The graph below shows ice core records from Antarctica. Which time interval represents the longest uninterrupted glacial period (ice age)?

12,000 to zero thousand years ago

The graph shows ice core records from Antarctica. Which time interval represents the longest interglacial period (ice age)?

12,000 to zero thousand years ago

What is a climate proxy?

An indirect method of learning about past climate.

A specific time period of climate change.

A scientific tool for studying climate.

Thermometer measurements over long time periods.

What is an interglacial?

A period of time in between ice ages.

Chips of ice with air bubbles that tell us about climate.

Parts of glaciers that break off into the ocean.

A period of time when much of Northern America was covered in ice.

Scientists use pollen cores to learn about past climates by:

analyzing pollen types to see what plants were present during a particular time.

determining how much sediment was deposited along with the pollen.

identifying the isotopes in the pollen.

analyzing the amount of CO2 in sediment layers.

Tree rings formed during an ice age:

would probably be thinner than average.

would probably be thicker than average.

would probably be lighter in color.

would probably be darker in color.

can only tell us how old a tree is.

One way scientists use ice cores to understand climate change is by measuring:

the amount of carbon dioxide in air bubbles.

pollen spores found in the ice.

fossil shells trapped in the ice.

If the Earth did not tilt on its axis, which would be true?

There would be no seasonal changes.

There would be more glaciers at high elevations.

Seasons would be more extreme in winter and summer.

Northern Hemisphere summers would be hotter.

The Northern Hemisphere summer always occurs when the:

north end of the Earth’s axis is pointed toward the sun.

Earth’s rotational axis changes to 23.5°.

south end of the Earth’s axis is pointed toward the sun.

northern hemisphere is closest to the sun.

If the tilt of the Earth’s axis were much greater than it is now, which of the following would happen?

Winters would be colder and summers would be hotter.

Each of the four seasons would be shorter.

There would be no seasonal changes.

Each of the four seasons would be longer.

Seasons would become very unpredictable.

Which of the following is NOT a factor to explain Earth's long-term climate changes?

The latitude of the Earth's poles.

The shape of the Earth's orbit.

The wobble of the Earth's axis.

The wobble of the Earth's orbit.

Compared to the rest of the year, in December the Northern Hemisphere is:

getting the same amount of sunlight.

When is the length of the day about the same as the night almost everywhere?

Approximately March 22, the Spring Equinox.

The tilt of the Earth means that the days are always longer in the southern hemisphere than in the northern hemisphere.

It is not possible because it is always dark at the North Pole.

At the Equinox and the Solstice.

Approximately June 21, the Summer Solstice.

The combined effects of the axial and orbital precession cycle affect:

the amount of sunlight reaching the Earth.

the shape of the Earth's orbit about the Sun.

the shape of the Moon's orbit about the Earth.

the degree of tilt of the Earth's rotation axis.

The Milankovitch Cycles describe the combined effects of:

obliquity, eccentricity and precession on insolation.

insolation, orbital variations and the inverse-square law on climate.

radiation, obliquity and insolation on climate.

precession, eccentricity and obliquity on the tilt of the Earth.

How does the Gulf Stream affect London, England?

London is warmer than it should be, based on its latitude.

London is colder than it should be, based on its latitude.

The Gulf Stream has no affect on London’s climate.

Snowier than it should be, based on its latitude.

Drier than it should be, based on its latitude.

If the Gulf Stream stopped flowing, how would the climate of northern European cities like London change?

The climate would produce more rain instead of snow.

Thermohaline ocean circulation is primarily caused by:

temperature and salinity of ocean water.

the rotation of the earth and the Coriolis Effect.

CO2 concentration in the ocean.

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Which of the following describes weather for a particular area?

Cold Decembers.

Typically rainy and cloudy.

Warm in the summer.

Sunny on June 19

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Which of the following describes climate for a particular area?

August weather is generally quite warm.

Yesterday it was 47 degrees outside.

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The humidity is less than one percent.

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Which of the following describes weather for a particular area?

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Sequim is close to the Pacific Ocean.

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Mt. Kilimanjaro in Central Africa has glaciers on it. This is because:

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Mt. Kilimanjaro in Central Africa has glaciers on it. This is because:

Which substance generally decreases its temperature the slowest?

A high coastal mountain range is on the western coast of a continent. Warm moist air blows from west to east over the mountains. From this information, you would expect the western side of the mountain range to __________ compared to the eastern side of the mountain range.

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