GEOG 1710 Exam 3

The subtropical highs create

• hot clear conditions

• heavy rain

• warm wet

• the Polar Easterlies

• cold wet conditions

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Monthly precipitation and temperature data are shown on a ___

• Weather station

• Climate model

• Station Model

• Climograph

• metrochart

The __________ climates have virtually no winter because of consistent day length and an almost perpendicular Sun angle.

• desert

• polar

• mesothermal

• tropical

• microthermal

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Tropical rainforest climates are constantly under the influence of

• ICTZ

• sub-tropical high pressure

• the westerlies

• jet streams

• the polar low

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_____ climates experience pronounced seasonal variation of wind and precipitation

• Tropical rain forest

• tropical monsoon

• tropical savanna

• marine west coast

• Mediterranean dry-summer

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___ climates have no true summer

• midlatitude cold steep

• humid continental mild summer

• subarctic

• polar

• humid continental hot summer

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____ climates are too cold for tree growth

• Polar

• midlatitude cold steep

• humid continental mild summer

• surbactic

• humid continental hot summer

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The _____ climate type is a result of constant influence of subtropical high-pressure and descending stable air

• dry

• tropical

• marine subtropical

• humid subtropical

• polar

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Most of the world's deserts are found on the __ side of continents

• Western

• northern

• eastern

• southeastern

• southern

Tundra climates have no

• trees

• insolation

• rainfall

• seasons

• vegetation