What happens during an equinox?

Only the Northern Hemisphere receives sunlight

What is the definition of weather?

Short-term condition of the atmosphere

Long-term atmospheric conditions

Average temperature over a year

Seasonal changes in temperature

What is precipitation?

Falling water droplets in the form of rain, sleet, snow, or hail

What is a rain shadow?

A patch of land that becomes desert due to blocked rain

What is the effect of altitude on air temperature?

Air temperature drops by 3.5 degrees every 1,000 ft.

Air temperature increases by 3.5 degrees every 1,000 ft.

Air temperature remains constant regardless of altitude.

Air temperature increases by 1 degree every 1,000 ft.

How do prevailing winds affect climate?

They distribute the sun’s heat to other parts of the world.

They have no effect on climate.

They only affect the climate near the equator.

They cool down the polar regions.

What role do ocean currents play in affecting climate?

Ocean currents can cool or warm the continents they touch.

Ocean currents have no impact on climate.

Ocean currents only cool the continents they touch.

Ocean currents only warm the continents they touch.

What happens to warm, moist air when it encounters a great mountain barrier?

It climbs up the side of the mountain and creates precipitation as it cools.

It remains at the base of the mountain.

It evaporates before reaching the mountain.

What is the effect of El Niño on global weather patterns?

It leads to droughts and flooding in North America, Asia, and Africa.

It causes cooler temperatures in the Pacific Ocean.

It results in the formation of volcanic ridges.

It creates rift valleys and ocean trenches.

Which of the following best describes the Greenhouse Effect?

It involves the trapping of solar rays by gases from burning coal and oil.

It causes the air to become drier and cooler.

It results in the formation of rift valleys.

It is the process of one plate diving under another.

According to the Continental Drift Theory, what was the original state of the Earth's continents?

They were once a supercontinent that slowly drifted apart.

They were always separate and distinct.

They were formed by volcanic activity.

They were created by the collision of tectonic plates.

A large rotating storm with high speed winds that forms over warm waters in tropical areas

A severe snowstorm with high winds and low visibility

A period of low average precipitation in a given region

A mature tropical storm that develops in the Indian Ocean

the process that breaks rock and other substances down.

a process that is only mechanical.

the movement of rock particles by wind, water, ice, and gravity

the only process that breaks down rocks.

What is a characteristic of the Marine West Coast climate region?

Rainfall is evenly distributed over the year

Less than 10 inches of rainfall per year

Always hot with average temperature of 80°F

UNIT 2 EXAM REVIEW Quiz

58 questions

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What are two names for a line on the grid system that run East and West?

Line of longitude or meridian

Line of latitude or a parallel

Equator or Prime Meridian

Northern Hemisphere or Southern Hemisphere

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is the name of the special line of latitude at 0 °

Prime Meridian

Northern Hemisphere

Equator

Southern Hemisphere

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What degree of latitude is the Equator?

90°N

90°S

0°

180°

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is the name of the parts of the Earth above the Equator?

Southern Hemisphere

Prime Meridian

Northern Hemisphere

Equator

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is the name of the parts of the Earth below the Equator?

Northern Hemisphere

Southern Hemisphere

Equator

Prime Meridian

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is the highest number of degrees latitude a location can be?

0°

45°

90°N or 90°S

180°

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What are two names for a line on the grid system that runs North and South?

Line of latitude or a parallel

Line of longitude or meridian

Equator or Prime Meridian

Northern Hemisphere or Southern Hemisphere

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UNIT 2 EXAM REVIEW

What are two names for a line on the grid system that run East and West?

What is the name of the special line of latitude at 0 °

What degree of latitude is the Equator?

What is the name of the parts of the Earth above the Equator?

What is the name of the parts of the Earth below the Equator?

What is the highest number of degrees latitude a location can be?

What are two names for a line on the grid system that runs North and South?

What is the name of the special line of longitude at 0°

What degree of longitude is the Prime Meridian?

What is the name of the parts of the Earth right of the Prime Meridian?

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