Advanced Geography Test 8 practice

What is the difference between climate and weather?

• weather is long term and climate is short term

• they both are long term

• they both are short term

• weather is short term and climate is long term

An imaginary line running through the earth's center between the north and south poles

What is defined as daytime and nighttime being equal in hours

• solstice

• equinox

• hemisphere

• eclipse

What is defined as the winter shortest day of the year and the summer longest day of the year?

• solstice

• equinox

• eclipse

• season

Why are the seasons reversed in the Northern and Southern hemispheres?

• The people prefer it that way

• It is cold in the Northern hemisphere and not in the Southern hemisphere

• The tilt of the earth on its axis

• The seasons are not reversed

What is the difference between equinoxes and solstices?

• Equinoxes are longest and shortest days; solstices are equal day and night

• Equinoxes and solstices are the same things

• Solstices and equinoxes have equal days in time and temperatures

• Solstices are longest and shortest days; equinoxes are equal day and night

What is greenhouse effect?

• Atmosphere traps in water

• Atmosphere traps in heat

• Atmosphere traps in winds

• Atmosphere traps in weather

What is defined when Co2 clogs the ozone trapping in more heat than it allows to go out?

• heat wave

• pollution

• greenhouse effect

• global warming

Which 2 types of air currents flow over the mid-latitudes?

• Northerlies

• Westerlies

• horse latitudes (calm)

• cow latitudes (rough)

Which 3 types of air currents flow over the low-latitudes?

• doldrums (calm)

• Northeasterly trade winds

• Westerlies

• Southeasterly trade winds