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Environmental Geography Exam 2

Pregunta 1 de 50

1

Which of the following climate zones would be described as not extreme, with four seasons?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • polar

  • tundra

  • temperate

  • tropical

  • rain forests

Explicación

Pregunta 2 de 50

1

Which of the following is a local area's short-term temperature, precipitation, and humidity?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • climate

  • weather

  • biomes

  • ecosystems

  • currents

Explicación

Pregunta 3 de 50

1

Where does the largest input of solar energy occur?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • north pole

  • south pole

  • 30 degrees north

  • 30 degrees south

  • equator

Explicación

Pregunta 4 de 50

1

Prevailing winds are the result of what?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • temperature

  • direction the sun strikes the earth

  • rotation of the earth on its axis

  • ocean currents

  • sun storms

Explicación

Pregunta 5 de 50

1

Which of the following statements about oceans is not true?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • ocean currents redistribute heat from the sun

  • most of the heat absorbed by the ocean air is absorbed in tropical waters

  • irregularly shaped continents cause currents to flow in circular patterns

  • differences in density of warm and cold seawater set up warm and cold currents

  • oceans currents flow counter-clockwise in the northern hemisphere

Explicación

Pregunta 6 de 50

1

Which of the following is not a greenhouse gas?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • carbon monoxide

  • water vapor

  • carbon dioxide

  • methane

  • nitrous oxide

Explicación

Pregunta 7 de 50

1

The term greenhouse effect describes

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • occupational diseases of florists

  • the trapping of heat energy by molecules in the atmosphere

  • the effect climate change had on the economy

  • the efforts of the White House to support environmental legislation

  • mutations in DNA from UV radiation

Explicación

Pregunta 8 de 50

1

Scientists expect human-enhanced global warming to do all of the following except

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • alter precipitation patterns

  • shift areas where we can grow crops

  • raise average sea levels

  • lower sea levels

  • shift areas where plants and animals can be found

Explicación

Pregunta 9 de 50

1

The rain shadow effect refers to

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • more light on the windward side of mountain ranges

  • more moisture on the leeward side of mountain ranges

  • moister conditions on the windward side of mountain ranges

  • drier conditions on the windward side of mountain ranges

  • less light available on the leeward side of mountain ranges

Explicación

Pregunta 10 de 50

1

Large terrestrial regions with similar characteristics are

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • ecosystems

  • communities

  • populations

  • habitats

  • biomes

Explicación

Pregunta 11 de 50

1

The most important factor in determining which biome is found in a particular area is

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • soil type

  • topography

  • magnetic fields

  • climate

  • tidal activity

Explicación

Pregunta 12 de 50

1

Biomes are characterized by certain types of

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • light and temperature

  • climate and light

  • light and climate

  • climate and dominant plant life

  • dominant plant life and temperature

Explicación

Pregunta 13 de 50

1

Which of the following is the primary limiting factor that controls the vegetative character of a biome?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • light

  • precipitation

  • nutrients

  • soil type

  • predation

Explicación

Pregunta 14 de 50

1

Which of the following is not an adaptation of desert plants for their environment?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • toxins in their stems to discourage being eaten

  • spines to discourage animals from taking their water

  • opening their pores only at night to prevent evaporation

  • store water in expandable tissues

  • reduced or no leaves

Explicación

Pregunta 15 de 50

1

Which type of desert would have high daytime temperatures in summer, low temperatures in winter, and moderate precipitation?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • tropical deserts

  • cold deserts

  • Gobi desert

  • temperate deserts

  • Sahara desert

Explicación

Pregunta 16 de 50

1

"Widely scattered clumps of trees, warm temperatures year-round, alternating dry and wet seasons, with herds of herbivores" are the characteristics of which of the following?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • tall-grass prairie

  • tundra

  • short-grass prairie

  • temperate grasslan

  • savanna

Explicación

Pregunta 17 de 50

1

Which of the following is not true of prairies?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • wind blows almost continuously

  • evaporation is rapid

  • fires in summer and fall are common

  • prairies are typical of coastal regions of continents

  • tree growth is hindered by fires and wind

Explicación

Pregunta 18 de 50

1

Treeless, bitterly cold most of the year, winters are long and dark, low-growing plants, and permafrost are the characteristics of which of the following?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • tall-grass pairie

  • tundra

  • short-grass prairie

  • temperate grassland

  • savanna

Explicación

Pregunta 19 de 50

1

On a visit to a Natural History museum you are shown a burrow-dwelling small animal with thick fur. You predict the animal came from the

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • temperate grasslands

  • desert

  • artic tundra

  • tropical forest

  • taiga

Explicación

Pregunta 20 de 50

1

Thick, spongy mats of low-growing plants, primarily grasses, mosses, and lichens, are typical of the

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • artic tundra

  • coniferous forest

  • tall-grass prairies

  • tropical forests

  • taiga

Explicación

Pregunta 21 de 50

1

Which of the following is the big disadvantage of living in a chaparral region?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • too much rain

  • fire hazard

  • too little rain

  • too many venomous snakes

  • bothersome rodent populations

Explicación

Pregunta 22 de 50

1

Tropical rain forests are not good for clearing to grow crops or animals, primarily because they are low in which of the following?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • rainfall

  • temperature

  • light

  • soil nutrients

  • wind

Explicación

Pregunta 23 de 50

1

Trees of the tropical rainforest are characterized by leaves that are

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • needlelike

  • broadleaf and fall seasonally

  • needlelike and fall seasonally

  • needlelike and evergreen

  • broadleaf and evergreen

Explicación

Pregunta 24 de 50

1

Which of the following would not be true of a tropical rain forest?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • low net primary productivity

  • little ground level vegetation

  • low levels of ground level sunlight

  • high biodiversity

  • high humidity

Explicación

Pregunta 25 de 50

1

Which of the following about temperate deciduous forests is false?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • average temperature change significantly with the seasons

  • they are predominantly a few broadleaf deciduous tree species

  • areas cleared of trees can return to forest in 100-200 years

  • they have nutrient-poor soil

  • precipitation often spreads relatively evenly throughout the year

Explicación

Pregunta 26 de 50

1

Which of the following biomes has been most disturbed by human activities?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • tundra

  • tropical rain forest

  • coniferous forest

  • temperate deciduous forest

  • taiga

Explicación

Pregunta 27 de 50

1

Which of the following would be described as having ample rainfall or moisture from fog, with large conifers such as Sitka spruce and Douglas fir?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • temperate rain forest

  • temperate deciduous forest

  • tropical rainforest

  • chaparral

  • taiga

Explicación

Pregunta 28 de 50

1

If you are walking through a forest dense with oak and hickory trees and thick with leaf litter underfoot, you would assume you are in a

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • tropical savanna

  • temperate deciduous forest

  • tropical rain forest

  • temperate rain forest

  • coniferous forest

Explicación

Pregunta 29 de 50

1

Which of the following best describes the earth's average surface temperature for the past 900,000 years?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • a steady warming trend

  • fairly steady temperatures until recently

  • prolonged periods of cooling and warming

  • fairly steady with occasional cool spells

  • fairly steady with a recent cooling trend

Explicación

Pregunta 30 de 50

1

The earth’s lower atmosphere is composed of all of the following greenhouse gases, except

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • ozone

  • carbon dioxide

  • water vapor

  • methane

  • nitrous oxide

Explicación

Pregunta 31 de 50

1

Climate models predict that global warming will be most severe in which regions?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • Australia

  • North America

  • Polar regions

  • Africa

  • Euro-Asia

Explicación

Pregunta 32 de 50

1

The predicted rise in sea levels during the 21st Century will likely cause all of the following results, except

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • saltwater contamination of coastal freshwater aquifers

  • flooding of some of the world's largest coastal cities, including New York

  • flooding of low-lying barrier islands and gently sloping coastlines

  • replenishment of many coastal fisheries

  • destruction of many coastal estuaries, wetlands, and coral reefs

Explicación

Pregunta 33 de 50

1

Following is a list of possible climate change tipping points, except for one. Choose the one that is not a tipping point.

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • atmospheric level of 450 ppm

  • collapse and melting of the Greenland ice sheet

  • expansion of Amazon rainforest

  • massive release of methane from Arctic permafrost

  • sharp drop in the ability of the oceans to absorb carbon dioxide

Explicación

Pregunta 34 de 50

1

The atmospheric zone where most weather events occur is the

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • stratosphere

  • toposphere

  • mesosphere

  • stratopause

Explicación

Pregunta 35 de 50

1

The ozone hole that causes concern among scientists and the public is an ozone depletion in the

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • toposphere

  • thermosphere

  • straosphere

  • mesosphere

Explicación

Pregunta 36 de 50

1

Albedo is a term describing the Earth’s

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • reflection of solar radiation

  • refraction of energy

  • production of radiant heat

  • outgoing infrared energy

Explicación

Pregunta 37 de 50

1

The phenomenom causing the greehouse effect is that ________ in the lower atmosphere selectively absorbs reradiated _____________ radiation.

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • ozone; visible light

  • carbon dioxide; methane and other gases; infrared (heat)

  • carbon dioxide; ultraviolet

  • methane; insolation

Explicación

Pregunta 38 de 50

1

Convection currents in the atmosphere are driven by

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • the jet stream dipping down into the troposphere

  • the different temperatures and densities of warm and cold air masses

  • bursts of energy emitted by the ionsphere

  • the surface winds, which in turn are influenced by the Coriolis effect

Explicación

Pregunta 39 de 50

1

A band of deserts rings the Earth at about 30 degrees north and south latitude because these are regions of

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • ascending, colling air

  • rising hot air

  • the Earth's most intense solar energy

  • descending, warming air

Explicación

Pregunta 40 de 50

1

As a cold front advances, the warm air is forced to

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • rise, become warmer and absorb more moisture

  • go under the mass of cold air

  • fall, condense and lose its moisture

  • rise, cool and release its moisture

Explicación

Pregunta 41 de 50

1

Milankovitch cycles involve the periodic _____________ and could be responsible for ________climate changes.

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • convection currents in the lower atmosphere; drastic

  • summer/winter seasonality on the Earth; gradual

  • wobbling of the earth's axis and orbital shirts; cyclic

  • seasons; daily

Explicación

Pregunta 42 de 50

1

When El Nino occurs every three to five years, a mass of warm Pacific water that is usually pushed westward by the trade winds

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • surges back eastward toward South America

  • Becomes much warmer than usual, strengthening trade winds

  • cools dramatically

  • surges northwards toward Japan

Explicación

Pregunta 43 de 50

1

Why don’t storms over land have as much energy as storms over oceans?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • convection currents are intensified by the latent energy of warm dry air

  • convection currents are intensified by the latent energy of condensation

  • high pressure cells are more common over oceans

  • there aren't as many low-pressure systems over land

Explicación

Pregunta 44 de 50

1

Monsoons occur over India when air heated over the Indian subcontinent and the Indian Ocean

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • is forced to rise because of convection

  • is forced to rise when it meets the Himalayas

  • begins to sink as summer approaches

  • is forced out over the Indian Ocean

Explicación

Pregunta 45 de 50

1

Location of specific biomes can be predicted based on

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • the Coriolis effect

  • precipitation and temperature

  • seasonal variations in sunspots

  • large landforms in the area

Explicación

Pregunta 46 de 50

1

The growth in the Taiga is limited by

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • the increased soil salt content from ocean tides

  • intense heat and dryness

  • the lack of large predators

  • extreme cold and short summers

Explicación

Pregunta 47 de 50

1

The biome that has a short growing season and is summer feeding and breeding grounds for caribou and musk-oxen is the

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • temperate grasslands

  • boreal forests

  • arctic tundra

  • arctic deserts

Explicación

Pregunta 48 de 50

1

Having needle-shaper leaves benefits plants because needles

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • reduce water loss and endure cold winters

  • are more efficient at photosynthesis because they are dark green

  • evaporate water more efficiently

  • are less resistant to strong winds

Explicación

Pregunta 49 de 50

1

Decidous forests

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • are adapted to extremely cold cimates

  • have tress that bear seeds in cones

  • have trees that shed their leaves seasonally

  • are not found in the African continent

Explicación

Pregunta 50 de 50

1

Humid tropical forests have extraordinary biological diversity

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • because of the very fertile tropical soils

  • because water is not a limiting factor

  • because rainfall dissolves soils nutrients and makes the available to plants

  • because the temperature is consistent at the equator allowing for specialization

Explicación

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