Climate and Climate Regions

Which of the following is a TRUE statement?

• Weather is day to day events of precipitation and temperature, but climate is week to week events.

• Weather and climate are the same thing.

• Weather is day to day events of precipitation and temperature, but climate is the average, year-after-year conditions.

• Weather refers to the events of precipitation and temperature, but climate only refers to temperature.

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What are the two main factors that determine climate?

• temperature and precipitation

• temperature and latitude

• latitude and altitude

• precipitation and altitude

Based on latitude, what are the three temperature zones that the Earth can be divided into?

• tropical, polar and equatorial

• polar, temperate and dry

• equatorial, tropical and wet

• tropical, temperate and polar

True or False. Temperature drops about 6.5 degrees Celsius (3 degrees Fahrenheit) for every 1000m increase in altitude. 

• True

• False

True of False. Marine climates have larger temperature extremes (changes in temperature) between winter and summer than do continental climates.

• True

• False

What are the two main factors that affect precipitation?

• temperature and prevailing winds

• prevailing winds and the presence of mountains

• the presence of mountains and windward

• windward and temperature

Why is the Sahara dry even though it is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea?

• The sand will always make it dry.

• It is near the equator.

• Most of the winds blow from the water towards the Sahara.

• Few winds blow from the water to the Sahara.

What causes seasons?

• the tilt of the Earth

• The Earth is closer to the sun in the summer.

• Fewer rays from the sun reach the Earth's surface in summer.

• More rays from the sun reach the Earth's surface in winter.

Not counting highlands, how many main climate regions does the Earth have?

• 3

• 4

• 5

• 6

Why are highlands a distinct climate region?

• Mountains have a higher temperature than the regions around them.

• Mountains have a lower temperature than the regions around them.

• Mountains are steeper than hills.

• Most animals prefer to live in the mountains.