Ch. 1-3 Test

Question 0

One or more common features that make it different from surrounding areas

Answer 0

Formal region

Question 1

Navigation system that allows land, sea, and air users to determine the exact location.

Answer 1

Global Positioning System

Question 2

Made up of different places that are linked together and function as a unit

Answer 2

Functional region

Question 3

Regions that reflect human feelings and attitudes

Answer 3

Perceptual region

Question 4

0 to 90

Answer 4

Latitude lines

Question 5

0to 180

Answer 5

Longitude lines

Question 6

Time earths poles tilt toward or away from the sun more than any other time

Answer 6

Solstice

Question 7

Occurs when earths poles are not toward away from the sun

Answer 7

Equinox

Question 8

When the solstice occurs

Answer 8

December 21 and June 21

Question 9

When equinox occurs

Answer 9

March 21 and September 22

Question 10

dry

Answer 10

Arid

Question 11

Amount of water vapor in the air

Answer 11

Humidity

Question 12

Permanently frozen soil

Answer 12

Permafrost

Question 13

Are storms related to weather or climate

Answer 13

Weather

Question 14

Process that the earth has gotten warmer over the decade

Answer 14

Global warming

Question 15

How is global warming believed to be caused

Answer 15

Human activity

Question 16

Tropical humid

Answer 16

Warm and rainy year round (along equator)

Question 17

Tropical wet and dry

Answer 17

Warm all year, distinct rainy and dry seasons, precipitation during dry seasons (between humid tropics and deserts

Question 18

Arid

Answer 18

Sunny and hot and very little precipitation

Question 19

Semiarid

Answer 19

Hot summers and cool winters and little precipitation

Question 20

Mediterranean

Answer 20

Dry and sunny and warm summers and mild wetter winters

Question 21

Humid subtropical

Answer 21

Hot humid summers and mild humid winters

Question 22

Marine west coast

Answer 22

Cloudy mild summers and cool rainy winters

Question 23

Humid continents

Answer 23

Four distinct seasons

Question 24

Subarctic

Answer 24

Extremes of temperatures long cold winters and short mild summers

Question 25

Tundra

Answer 25

Cold all year

Question 26

Ice cap

Answer 26

Freezing cold and ice and snow year round

Question 27

Highland

Answer 27

Greatly varied temperature and precipitation amounts over short distances as elevation changes