14.3: Questions

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Question 1 Which of the following is NOT a factor that determines the climate of a region?
Average temperature
Range of temperature
Precipitation
Elevation

Question 2 What is NOT a geologic condition that contributes to temperature, precipitation of a region?
Closeness to oceans
Spatial relation of mountains
Latitude
Longitude

Question 3 Land climate zones are not as orderly arranged by latitude as ocean climate zones. This is because of the effect of
Mountains and air flows
Vegetations
Cities
Human alterations

Question 4 Which of the following makes land climates more extreme than ocean climates?
Concretes in cities
Specific heat of vegetations
Specific heat of rocks
Human alterations of landscape

Question 5 Seasonal temperature changes are_____in equatorial regions and_____with increasing latitude.
Large; decreases
Small; increases
Small; decreases
Large; increases

Question 6 The annual range of daily total solar energy received at the Earth’s surface_____with latitude.
Decreases
Increases
Remains the same
Is without regular pattern

Question 7 Daily and seasonal temperature changes on land are_____in coastal locations than interior regions at the same latitude.
Small
Large
The same
Without regular pattern

Question 8 Which of the following in NOT a primary factor that determines the average temperature of a location?
Prevailing wind direction
Height of mountain
Proximity to ocean
Presence of forests

Question 9 Having similar latitudes and proximity to oceans, Boston's temperature is lower than Portland. Which explains this difference.
Specific heat of different types of rocks
Offshore vs. onshore prevailing winds
Different oceans
Different longitude

Question 10 Having similar latitudes but different distances from oceans, the temperature difference between Sheridan and Portland can be explained by_____.
Specific heat difference between land and water
Different directions of prevailing winds
Different oceans
Different longitudes

Question 11 High latitude coastal land climates are warmed by
Easterlies
Westerlies
Trade winds
Tropical storms

Question 12 Which of the following ocean currents carries warm water to the east coast of North America?
Canary current
North equatorial current
Gulf stream
North Atlantic current

Question 13 Land climate zones are defined primarily by
Temperature and precipitation
Amount of sunlight and proximity to ocean
Temperature and humidity
Temperature and elevation

Question 14 What is Earth’s energy budget?
The balance of heat transfer between equator and poles
The balance of the incoming and outgoing solar radiations
The balance of onshore and offshore winds
The balance of temperature between day and night.

Question 15 What is the reflectivity of Earth's surface called?
Albedo
Opacity
Obliquity
Transparency

Question 16 A higher albedo absorbs_____sunlight?
Less
More
An indifferent amount
Varying but unpredictable amount

Question 17 What does NOT affect Earth's energy budget?
Albedo
Greenhouse gases
Circulation of ocean water
Solar radiance

Question 18 What is NOT a common greenhouse gas?
Water vapor (H₂O)
Carbon dioxide (CO₂)
Methane (CH₄)
Ozone (O₃)

Question 19 The residence time of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is
Days
Decades
Hundreds of years
Thousands of years

Question 20 Carbon can be buried in rocks through
Metamorphism
Organic-rich shale
Sandstone
Granite

Question 21 Keeling curve documents the change in_____in the atmosphere.
Temperature
Carbon dioxide concentration
Ozone concentration
Water vapor concentration

Question 22 Ocean acidification is the result of_____.
Absorption of atmospheric CO₂ by ocean water
Increased volcanic activities
Increased hydrothermal vent activities
Increased upwelling

Question 23 According to IPCC AR6, the world's leading greenhouse gases are the following EXCEPT
Carbon dioxide
Methane
Nitrous oxide
Ozone

Question 24 According to IPCC AR6, Earth's temperature has increased since the 1850-1900 level by amount of
1.8 °C
1.09 °C
1.5 °C
0.8 °C

Question 25 According to IPCC AR6, the sources of CO₂ increase are the following EXCEPT
Combustion of fossil fuels, land use change
Combustion of fossil fuels, increased volcanic activities
Combustion of fossil fuels, increased storm frequency
Combustion of fossil fuels alone

Question 26 According to IPCC AR6, the amount of released CO₂ during 1750–2019 period that remains in Earth's temperature is
41%
20%
98%
33%

Question 27 According to IPCC AR6, the leading fates of anthropogenically released CO₂ are EXCEPT
Remaining in the atmosphere
Dissolved in oceans
Removed by terrestrial ecosystems
Removed by carbon sequestration technologies

Question 28 According to IPCC AR6, the carbon cycle provides an account in the
Sources and sinks of CO₂
Amount of warming
Amount of CO₂ in the atmosphere
Amount of CO₂ in the oceans

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