World geography 3200/3202 Unit 2 review

1. Does this statement use the terms revolve & rotate correctly? "Saturn revolves on its axis

while several moons rotate around it."__________________________

2. Does this statement use the term revolve & rotate correctly? "Uranus is a unique planet

because it rotates on an axis that is 90o to its plane of revolution around the sun._____________

3. How long does it take the earth to make one rotation on its axis?_______________________

4. How long does it take for the earth to make one revolution around the sun?_______________

5. At what time of day are we rotating away from the sun to the east.______________________

6. At what time of day are we rotating towards the sun from the west._____________________

7. Does cloud cover increase or decrease the range of temperature from day to night?_________

8. There are two reasons why the days are longer in summer and shorter in the winter. What are

they?______________________

9. What causes day & night?________________________

10.The time of year when there is equal day and night all over the earth.____________________

11 The time of year when the northern hemisphere experiences its longest day of the year._____

12. The time of year when the northern hemisphere experiences its shortest day of the year.____

13. The earth sun relationship that occurs on Sept. 21._______________________________

14. The earth sun relationship that occurs on Dec. 21._______________________________

15. The earth sun relationship that occurs March 21._________________________________

16. The earth sun relationship that occurs on June 21._______________________________

17. What is the latitude of the tropic of cancer?_______________________________

18. What is the latitude of the tropic of Capricorn?____________________________

19. Two reasons for warmer temperatures in summer._________________________

20. Two reasons why seasons occur.__________________________________

21. What season is it in Canada when it is spring in South Africa?_______________________

22. What season is it in Argentina when it is winter in Norway?_________________________

23. What season is it in Greenland when it is Fall in India?____________________________

24. What season is it in Mexico when it is summer in south Australia?___________________

25. As Latitude increases what happens to temperature?_____________________________

26. The Poles of the earth are colder than the equatorial regions because of the earth's

_________________ Shape.

27. What causes wind to blow?____________________________

28. What causes winds to be deflected from a straight path?__________________________

29. What causes the development of global convection cells and pressure belts.______________

30. Winds that normally blow in a region are referred to as _?_.__________________________

31. When do sea breezes occur?__________________________________________________

32. What name is given to the prevailing winds between 60 and 90 degrees N._______________

33. What name is given to the prevailing winds between 60 and 90 degrees S._______________

34. What name is given to the prevailing winds between 30 and 60 degrees N._______________

35. What name is given to the prevailing winds between 30 and 60 degrees S._______________

36. What name is given to the prevailing winds between 0 and 30 degrees N.________________

37. What name is given to the prevailing winds between 0 and 30 degrees S._________________

38. When hot air rises what type of pressure is created?_______________________________

39. What type of rain fall is depicted in this figure?_____________

40. Which temperature air can hold more moisture warm or cold?____________

41. What happens to the temperature of air as it rises?____________________

42. In this figure what causes the air to rise? _______________________

43. What is the name of the side of the mountain where the winds hits?________

44. What is the name of the other side of the mountain.__________________

45. Which side of the mountain is said to be in a rains shadow? ____________

46. Which part of Newfoundland may receive a fair degree of its snowfall in this

manner? _____________________________

47. Which type of rainfall is depicted in this figure?_________________

48. Where is it most common for this type of rain to occur?_______________

49. Why would this type of precipitation be uncommon in the Canadian

winter?______________________

50. What causes the air to rise in this type of rainfall?__________________

51. What type of rainfall is occurring in this figure?________________

52 What causes the air to rise in this type of rainfall?_________________

53. Look At figure 4.7 on page 60 and explain why Cape Town, South Africa might have similar

fog conditions as St. John’s NF?______________________________

54. What is a Permanent or semi-permanent horizontal movement of surface water (the top

100m).___________________________________

55. Which type of ocean currents flow from the equator toward the poles._________________

56. Which type of ocean currents flow from the polar regions toward the equatorial

regions.__________________________________

57. Which type of ocean currents reduce the amount of precipitation a region

receives?_________________________________

58. Do Warm ocean currents affect the summer or winter temperatures

more?____________________________

59. Which type of current is the Peru current?_______________________________

60. Which type of current is the Japanese current?_______________________________

61. Australia has a fair amount of desert. Looking at figure 4.7 on p. 60 which coast would you

expect it to be on, east or west?_____________________________________

62. What term is used to describe the range between the highest and the lowest average monthly

temperatures of a region._______________________________

63. What type of climate would location C experience?______________________

64. What type of climate would Location E Experience?___________________________

65. What type of climate would Location F Experience?_____________________________

66. What type of climate would Location B Experience?_______________________________

67. Which will experience the hottest summer, C or E?________________________________

68. Which will experience the coldest winter A or F?_______________________________

69. Which location will experience the greatest temperature range, A or D?_________________

70. Which location will experience the greatest temperature range, A or B?_________________

71. This climate graph comes from a city in the U.S. at about 40º N. Does it appear to be

Continental? Why?_______________________________________

72. Sudden wet season in the tropics is known as?________________________

73. During India's Winter monsoon why does the High pressure develop over

Asia/India?_______________________________________________

74. During India's Winter monsoon how much precipitation do they

receive?___________________________________________

75. During India's Winter monsoon why does the Indian ocean really "cool" off to create the low

pressure?________________________________________

76. During India's summer monsoon why does the low pressure develop over

Asia/India?____________________________________

77. During India's Summer monsoon how much precipitation do they

receive?_______________________________________

78. What term refers to the height above sea-level?______________________________

79. Which province of Canada has the highest average elevation?_________________________

80. If the elevation increases 300 m how does the temperature change?___________________

81. If the city of "Atlantis" is at 0 m elevation and tectonic activity pushes it up 600 m how

would the average temperature change?_________________________________________

82. All Tropical Climates have average temperatures over _?_ ºC every day due to low latitude &

warm ocean currents & prevailing winds.____________________________

83. On the climate graph for a tropical climate of any sort the _?_ is almost flat because of the

constant warm temperatures._________________________

84.The type of climate represented in this climate graph occurs between

which latitudes ?___________________________

85. The bars on this climate graph represent_?_.________________

86. The line on this climate graph represent _?_._______________

87. The temperature on this climate graph is measured in which

units?___________________________________________

88. The most distinguishing feature of an arid or semi-arid climate graph

is _?_.______________________________________

89. Most arid/desert climates occur between which

latitudes?_____________________________________

90. Which type of climate might you expect in the grasslands of

Asia?___________________________________

91. Which type of climate might you expect in the monsoon region of

India?____________________________________

92. Which type of climate might you expect in the lush rainforest

portion of Brazil?__________________________________________

93. How much annual precipitation does an arid climate

receive?_________________________

94. How much annual precipitation does a semi-arid climate receive? ______________________

95.Which type of climate is depicted in this climate

graph?________________________________

96. What two features distinguish it?____________________________

97. What latitude would your expect to find a region that had this

climate?______________________________

98. Would you expect to find this in both

hemispheres?___________________________________

99. What type of climate is depicted in this climate graph?

____________________________________

100. What distinguishes it from the climate

above?__________________________________

101. Why do you think there is less

precipitation?___________________________________

World Geography 3200/3202 Unit 2 review Answers

1. Saturn rotates on its axis

while moons revolve around it.

2. YES

3. 24 hours

4. 365 Days

5.EVENING

6.. MORNING

7. DECREASE

8. 1. TILT OF EARTH'S AXIS

2. REVOLUTION OF EARTH

AROUND THE SUN.

9. EARTH''S ROTATION ON

ITS AXIS

10. EQUINOX

11. SUMMER SOLSTICE

12. WINTER SOLSTICE

13. FALL EQUINOX

14. WINTER SOLSTICE

15. SPRING EQUINOX

16. SUMMER SOLSTICE

17. 23.5 N

18. 23.5 S

19. MORE DIRECT LIGHT &

LONGER DAYS

20. TILT ON EARTH"S AXIS

& EARTH"S REVOLUTION

AROUND THE SUN.

21. FALL

22. SUMMER

23. FALL THEY ARE BOTH

IN THE NORTHERN

HEMISPHERE.

24. WINTER, AT LEAST

THEIR VERSION OF

WINTER. REMEMBER

CLOSE TO THE QUATOR

THERE IS VERY LITTLE

TEMP, VARIATION.

25. IT DECREASES

26.SPHERICAL.

27. DIFFERENCES IN AIR

PRESSURE

28. CORIOLIS FORCE

29. DIFFERENTIAL

HEATING OF THE EARTH

30. PREVAILING

31. DAY WHEN LAND IS

HOTTER THAN SEA

32. NORTH POLAR

EASTERLIES

33. SOUTH POLAR

EASTERLIES

34. WESTERLY

35. WESTERLY

36. Northeast trade winds

37.SOUTHEAST TRADE

38. Low

39. RELIEF OR OROGRAPHIC

40. WARM

41. COOLS

42. HIGH RELIEF

43. WINDWARD

44.. LEEWARD

45. LEEWARD

46. CORNER BROOK/WEST

COAST

47. CONVECTIONAL

48. TROPICS & CENTRE OF

CONTINENTS IN SUMMER

49. TOO COLD

50. HEAT & CONVECTION

CURRENTS

51. FRONTAL

52. WARM AIR LESS DENSE

AND RISES OVER COLD

DENSE AIR

53. ST. JOHN"S HAS COLD

LABRADOR AND WARM

NORTH ATLANTIC DRIFT

COMBINING TO GIVE FOG<

WHILE SOUTH AFRICA HAS

THE COLD WEST WIND DRIFT

AND THE WARM AGULHAS

CURRENTS COMBINING TO

GIVE FOG

54. OCEAN CURRENT

55. WARM

56. COLD

57. COLD

58. WINTER TEMPERATURES

ARE MADE VERY MILD

59. COLD

60. WARM

61. WEST COAST, THE COLD

OCEAN CURRENT WOULD

REDUCE PRECIPITATION.

62. TEMPERATURE RANGE

63. CONTINENTAL

64. MARITIME

65. MARITIME

66. CONTINENTAL

67. C

68. A

69. A

70. A

71. NO, TOO LOW A

TEMPERATURE RANGE

FOR THAT LATITUDE

72. MONSOON

73. COLDER WEATHER

CAUSES THE LAND AND

AIR TO COOL CREATING

THE LOW

74. During India's Winter

monsoon how much precipitation

do they receive? VERY LITTLE

75. NO: THE LAND HEATED

QUICKLY, WHILE THE

OCEAN MAINTAINED THE

SAME TEMPERATURE

MAKING THE OCEAN A

RELATIVE LOW

76. HOT SUMMER

WEATHER HEATS THE

LAND WHICH HEATS THE

AIR CAUSING AIR TO RISE

GIVING IT A LOW

PRESSURE.

77. TORRENTIAL RAIN

78. ELEVATION

79. B.C.

80. DECREASE BY 2ºC

81. -4ºC

82. 18

83. TEMPERATURE LINE

84. TROPIC OF CANCER &

TROPIC OF CAPRICORN

85. PRECIPITATION

86. TEMPERATURE

87. ºC

88. LOW PRECIPITATION

BARS

89. 30ºN & 30ºS or more

specifically 10-30ºN and

10-30ºS.

90. SEMI-ARID

91. TROPICAL WET & DRY

92. TROPICAL WET & DRY

93. 10-250mm

94. 250-500mm

95. TEMPERATE MILD

WINTER

96. SEASONAL

TEMPERATURES BUT NO

WINTER TEMPERATURES

BELOW -3 DEGREES

97. MIDLATITUDES

98. YES

99. TEMPERATE COLD

WINTER

100. MUCH COLDER

WINTERS, BELOW -3

DEGREES

101. COLDER

TEMPERATURES SO THE

AIR HOLDS LESS

MOISTURE