JC Geography: Climate

Which of the following is not an example of a hot climate?

• Savannah

• Boreal

• Desert

• Equatorial

True or False: the boreal climate is located in the southern hemisphere

• True

• False

The world climate can be broadly classified into 3 types. These are:

• Hot, Warm, Cold

• Warm, Temperate, Cold

• Hot, Temperate, Cold

• Hot, Temperate, Cool

3 key factors that influence climate are, distance from the sea, air masses and winds and ____________

Because water absorbs and loses heat slower than land this means inland areas tend to be:

• warmer in the winter than coastal areas

• colder in the winter than coastal areas

• warmer in the summer than coastal areas

• colder in the summer than coastal areas

Ireland's prevailing winds are warm, moist winds called the

• south-westerlies

• north-westerlies

• south-easterlies

• north-westerlies

The direction land or slope faces is called:

• Aspect

• Altitude

• Relief

Altitude refers to the:

Which of the following is not a cause of global warming:

• Burning of fossil fuel

• Melting of polar ice caps

• Deforestation

• Release of methane

Chlorofluorocarbon cause damage to

• Ozone layer

• Stratosphere

• Troposphere