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Global Climates

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What does the term 'climate' mean?

a)

Day-to-day weather conditions

b)

Average temperature, precipitation and wind speed of a country

c)

Average weather across a large area of the earth's surface

d)

Average annual weather conditions of a particular area

2.

For an area's climate to be determined, certain weather conditions are measured over how many years?

a)

1

b)

10

c)

25

d)

35

3.

What are the three categories of global climates

(a)  

4.

Which of the following characteristics help distinguish between the three different global climates?

a)

Location

b)

Levels of precipitation

c)

Size of the country/continent

d)

Temperature

5.

Which of the following climates are found either on or 30 degrees north or south of the equator?

a)

Hot

b)

Temperate

c)

Cold

6.

Cool Temperate Oceanic and Mediterranean climates are examples of climates from which category?

a)

Hot

b)

Temperate

c)

Cold

7.

Which global climate is found between 30-60 degrees north and south of the equator?

a)

Hot

b)

Temperate

c)

Cold

8.

What does the word 'boreal' mean?

a)

Cold

b)

Northern

c)

Southern

d)

Barren

9.

Equatorial, Savanna and Hot Desert climates are all examples of what type of climate?

a)

Hot

b)

Temperate

c)

Cold

10.

Which climate type is found in the far north of the northern hemisphere, between 50-66 degrees north of the equator?

a)

Hot

b)

Temperate

c)

Cold

11.

What is an alternative name for the mid-zone climate?

a)

Hot climate

b)

Low zone climate

c)

Temperate climate

d)

Equator zone climates

12.

Which climate type is very cold, very dry with frozen grassland and permafrost?

a)

Subarctic

b)

Tundra

c)

Boreal

d)

The North Pole

13.

Which hot climate is said to have twice the average rainfall of Ireland?

a)

Equatorial

b)

Savanna

c)

Hot Desert

14.

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?

a)

Equatorial

b)

Savanna

c)

Hot Desert

15.

The Sahara is an example of which hot climate type?

a)

Equatorial

b)

Savanna

c)

Hot Desert

16.

Ireland has this climate type....

a)

Cool temperate oceanic

b)

Warm temperate oceanic

c)

Mediterranean

d)

Boreal

17.

Which temperate climate type has hot and dry summers and mild and moist winters?

a)

Warm temperate oceanic

b)

Cool temperate oceanic

18.

Which temperate climate type has a relatively low temperate range; with temperatures between 14 degrees Celsius in summer and 0 degrees Celsius in winter.

a)

Warm temperate oceanic

b)

Cool temperate oceanic

19.

Which cold climate type has a very short summer?

a)

Boreal

b)

Tundra

20.

Which cold climate type experiences the coldest winters and the coldest summers too?

a)

Boreal

b)

Tundra