Tropical Design Quiz 1

Tropical Design QUIZ 1

Instructions:

1. 1. Use CAPITAL LETTERS for multiple choice and identification; not following will have no merit.

2. 2. Erasures and wrong spelling means wrong.

3. 3. DO NOT CHEAT nor perform any Academic Dishonesty (copying your seatmates work, looking into your notes, etc). Any form of cheating is prohibited nor tolerated and may lead to failure of this course in accordance to the TIP Student’s Manual.

4. 4. Take note that quiz results may be uncredited for any disobedience on the instructions.

5. 5. Use your FULL NAME upon entering the quiz.

1. What is another term for Temperate Regions where the climate of this zone is moderate neither very hot nor very cold?

• Mesothermal

• Limathermal

• Moist-subtropic

• Tropical of Cancer

Continental climates exist where cold air masses infiltrate during the winter and warm air masses form in summer under conditions of high sun and long

days. Which country does not belong to Continental Regions?

• North America

• Siberia

• China

• Canada

Name the one (1) tropics present in the upper tropical region.

Name the one (1) tropics present in the lower tropical region.

These climate zones is characterized by irregular; several years of drought are often followed by a

single year of abundant rainfall.

• Tropical Region

• Dry Region

• Arid Desert

• Semi-Arid

What is another term for Semi-Arid?

Tropical Continental originates in tropical latitudes over the

atlantic ocean. Brings warm, moist, unstable air. It is moist because

it travels across the ocean, picking up moisture as it moves.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Tropical Maritime originates over the land. It brings warm,

dry, stable conditions as it travels over land as opposed to water.

In both summer and winter, it brings hot/warm and dry conditions

• TRUE

• FALSE

Which one is not an impact of ITCZ on weather?

• It affects rainfall in equatorial region due to the variation of

  location resulting in the wet and dry seasons of the tropics rather

• It warms the ocean which provides the hot waterfuel that

  allows low pressure areas to mature into full hurricanes.

• Longer term changes resulted severe droughts or flooding.

• It creates high pressure areas of convection rainfall that are

  embyronic hurricanes