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WorksheetsGlobal Climates
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
What does the term 'climate' mean?
Day-to-day weather conditions
Average temperature, precipitation and wind speed of a country
Average weather across a large area of the earth's surface
Average annual weather conditions of a particular area
For an area's climate to be determined, certain weather conditions are measured over how many years?
1
10
25
35
What are the three categories of global climates
(a)
Which of the following characteristics help distinguish between the three different global climates?
Location
Levels of precipitation
Size of the country/continent
Temperature
Which of the following climates are found either on or 30 degrees north or south of the equator?
Hot
Temperate
Cold
Cool Temperate Oceanic and Mediterranean climates are examples of climates from which category?
Hot
Temperate
Cold
Which global climate is found between 30-60 degrees north and south of the equator?
Hot
Temperate
Cold
What does the word 'boreal' mean?
Cold
Northern
Southern
Barren
Equatorial, Savanna and Hot Desert climates are all examples of what type of climate?
Hot
Temperate
Cold
Which climate type is found in the far north of the northern hemisphere, between 50-66 degrees north of the equator?
Hot
Temperate
Cold
What is an alternative name for the mid-zone climate?
Hot climate
Low zone climate
Temperate climate
Equator zone climates
Which climate type is very cold, very dry with frozen grassland and permafrost?
Subarctic
Tundra
Boreal
The North Pole
Which hot climate is said to have twice the average rainfall of Ireland?
Equatorial
Savanna
Hot Desert
Which hot climate experiences a high range of temperature which temperatures as high as 50 degrees Celsius during the day and as low as 0 degrees Celsius at night?
Equatorial
Savanna
Hot Desert
The Sahara is an example of which hot climate type?
Equatorial
Savanna
Hot Desert
Ireland has this climate type....
Cool temperate oceanic
Warm temperate oceanic
Mediterranean
Boreal
Which temperate climate type has hot and dry summers and mild and moist winters?
Warm temperate oceanic
Cool temperate oceanic
Which temperate climate type has a relatively low temperate range; with temperatures between 14 degrees Celsius in summer and 0 degrees Celsius in winter.
Warm temperate oceanic
Cool temperate oceanic
Which cold climate type has a very short summer?
Boreal
Tundra
Which cold climate type experiences the coldest winters and the coldest summers too?
Boreal
Tundra
