M&C - Climate factors

Different temperature pattern in Toronto and Havana is mainly the effect of:

• latitude

• elevation

• distance from the sea

• local winds

Temperature variability in Yakutsk is larger than in Reykjavik mainly due to:

• higher elevation

• position further north

• smaller amount of rainfall

• inland position, large distance form the sea

Eureka and New York have different temperature and rainfall patterns because:

• New York lies further inland

• prevailing winds bring air masses of different properties

• they have different elevation

• a warm ocean current influences the climate of New York

With increasing elevation air temperature:

• does not change

• increases

• decreases

Warm ocean currents influence coastal climate and generally make it:

• warmer and wetter

• warmer and drier

• colder and wetter

• colder and drier

Mountains:

• sometimes act as a "rain shadow" (leeward slopes are quite dry)

• do not affect the climate of the surroundings

• have a milder climate than plains

Choose the processes involved in the water cycle (more than one answer is correct):

• evaporation

• infiltration

• snow cover

• groundwater

Choose all the true sentences about the greenhouse effect (more than one answer is correct):

• it is a man-made atmospheric disturbance

• without it, life on Earth would be extremely difficult due to the very low global temperature

• it is a natural phenomenon

• it is being amplified by anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases

What is the role of the ocean in the carbon cycle?

• the ocean emits a lot of carbon dioxide what is the main reason for CO2 increasing concentrations in the atmosphere

• the ocean is a carbon reservoir; it is called a carbon ‘sink’ because it takes up more carbon from the atmosphere than it gives up

From this distribution chart of rainfall in Warsaw (1981-2010) we can read that (more than one answer is correct):

• generally, rainfall is highest in winter (Dec-Feb)

• June has the largest variability in rainfall

• February and May have quite a similar variability in rainfall

• mean rainfall in January and May is almost the same