What two characteristic are used to classify climates

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Question 1

1. Grasslands bordering a desert are called

		Steppes
		Tundra
		Savannah
		Rainforests

 

Question 2

1. What type of air mass colliding with a cold front would be more likely to give rise to thunderstorms?

		Continental polar
		Maritime polar
		Continental tropical
		Maritime tropical

 

Question 3

1. "In a normal year, you can have ____ lunar and _____ solar eclipses"

		1
		2
		3
		4

 

Question 4

1. An occluded front can give rise to

		clearing skies
		snow
		a mid-latitude cyclone
		a tropical storm

 

Question 5

1. What two characteristic are used to classify climates?

		Cloud cover and snowfall
		Vegetation and humidity
		Temperature and rainfall
		latitude and longitude

 

Question 6

1. The southeastern US is an example of a __________________ climate

		Humid tropical
		West Coast
		East Coast
		Humid subtropical

 

Question 7

1. "In terms of both property loss, and loss of lives, the most destructive component of a hurricane is"

		Wind
		rainfall
		storm surge
		high waves

 

Question 8

1. A siderial day is ______________ than a solar day

		longer
		shorter
		the same as
		None of these

 

Question 9

1. Radar that uses the phase shift of microwaves bounced off of raindrops is called

		ranging
		weather
		Doppler
		storm

 

Question 10

1. "Highland climates have, relative to lowland climates"

		Less rainfall
		More deserts
		Lower temperatures
		Higher humidity

 

Question 11

1. The plane that the planets orbit is is called the

		Celestial Sphere
		Ecliptic
		Retrograde
		Siderial

 

Question 12

1. The idea that the Earth is at the center of the Universe is called

		Geocentric
		Heliocentric
		Galilean
		Retrograde

 

Question 13

1. What causes middle-latitude deserts?

		Mountains
		La Nina
		Descending air

Question 14

1. Who was the first to use Epicycles to explain retrograde motion

		Aristotle
		Newton
		Eratosthenes
		Ptolemy

 

Question 15

1. A spinning low presssure air mass that has a sustained wind speed above 74 mph is called a

		tropical depression
		tropical storm
		hurricane
		tornado

 

Question 16

1. Who invented the telescope

		Aristotle
		Galileo
		Newton
		None of these

 

Question 17

1. "Aside from producing red sunrise and sunset, aerosols are essential for the formation of"

		Ozone
		Low humidity
		frost
		precipitation

 

Question 18

1. Which of the following is a strong greenhouse gas?

		Oxygen
		Nitrogen
		Argon
		Methane

 

Question 19

1. Mountains can produce

		Rainshadow deserts
		Tundra
		sand dunes
		Ozone

 

Question 20

1. We measure the intensity of tornadoes using the ________ scale

		Richter
		Fujita
		Saffir-Simpson
		Mercalli

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Question 21

1. Newton was the first to recognize that the motions of the planets were caused by

		Inertia
		gravity
		inertia and gravity
		Epicycles

 

Question 22

1. When a tornado has actually been sighted or rotation is indicated on Doppler radar a ________ is issued

		watch
		tornado caution
		warning
		conditional warning

 

Question 23

1. The technical name for the cloud we call a thunderstorm is

		cumulonimbus
		stratus
		cirrus
		nimbostratus

 

Question 24

1. We classify climates using the ________________ system

		Wegener
		Standard
		Koppen
		Torricelli

 

Question 25

1. Warm air displacing cold air is called a ______ front

		cold
		warm
		occluded
		stationary