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what are the world's major climates and how do they relate to biomes?

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Weather and Climate

Question 1 of 10

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What is weather?

Select one of the following:

  • What the outside is like

  • It is the atmospheric conditions that we experience from day to day

Explanation

Question 2 of 10

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What is climate ?

Select one of the following:

  • The average weather conditions of a place over several decades

  • What a place is like all the time

Explanation

Question 3 of 10

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What is a certain places climate determined by ?

Select one of the following:

  • Sunshine and rain

  • All weather

  • Temperature and precipitation

Explanation

Question 4 of 10

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How is a map of global climate zones formed?

Select one of the following:

  • Satellite pictures

  • From climate data collated from weather stations around the world

  • From rainfall results

Explanation

Question 5 of 10

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What does temperature depend on ?

Select one of the following:

  • Prevailing winds and rainfall

  • Sunshine

  • Everything

Explanation

Question 6 of 10

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Sunlight varies ......

Select one of the following:

  • Spatially and seasonally

  • With cloud cover

  • with all weather

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Question 7 of 10

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What else does temperature depend on?

Select one of the following:

  • Rainfall

  • Extreme weather events

  • Altitude

Explanation

Question 8 of 10

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What does precipitation depend on ?

Select one of the following:

  • Temperature

  • The country

  • Global atmospheric conditions

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Question 9 of 10

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What two things does the global atmospheric conditions create?

Select one of the following:

  • Wind and sunlight

  • Weather

  • broad bands of rainfall at the equator and temperate regions and low rainfall at the topics and the poles

Explanation

Question 10 of 10

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How can these patterns be changed? (2)

Select one of the following:

  • By sunlight and wind

  • By the Earth's tilt moving the patterns westwards and the location of the continents in relation to the oceans.

  • By the gulf stream and the rainfall

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