LINKS CHAPTER C CLIMATE AND CLIMATE CHANGE Books [~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~] Class Meetings Course Description Course Schedule 1. Climate is defined as Grading weather at some locality averaged over some time period Learning weather extremes over some time period Objectives A combination of the above Photographs Practice Questions 2. The climate norm or normal Special Notice is the same as the climate mean Student encompasses both means and extremes in the climate record Responsibilities Neither of the above is correct Access to Online Daily Weather 3. Climatic anomalies (departures from long term Summary and averages) are geographically nonuniform in Learning sign (direction) Activities magnitude both sign and magnitude National Weather Service - Green Bay 4. Fixed control(s) of climate: latitude Home elevation topography All of the above are correct 5. The relatively dry side of a high mountain barrier: windward slopes leeward slopes 6. The heat equator is in the Northern Hemisphere coincides with the geographical equator is in the Southern Hemisphere is at 30 degrees N latitude 7. On a global-scale, the north-south (meridional) air temperature gradient is greater in the _____ hemisphere than in the _______ hemisphere. winter...summer summer...winter 8. In the Northern Hemisphere, the semipermanent subtropical highs shift ______ in spring. northward southward eastward westward 9. Through the millions of years of geologic time, which one of the following was a fixed (constant) control of climate? solar radiation topography land/water distribution None of the above is correct 10. Continental drift was first formally proposed in 1912 by Alfred Wegner. may explain the occurrence of fossil coral reefs in Wisconsin is occurring now All of the above are correct 11. The last major glacial advance over North America peaked about ________ years ago 1 million 100,000 18,000 25,000 12. During the Ice Age, the climate shifted _______ times between glacial climatic episodes and interglacial climatic episodes. two four a dozen numerous 13. Maximum cooling during the Ice Age took place at _________ latitudes polar middle subtropical tropical 14. The Little Ice Age: 950 to 1250 A.D. 1400 to 1850 A.D. 7,000 to 5,000 years ago 12,900 to 11,600 years ago 15. The medieval warm period: 950 to 1250 A.D. 1400 to 1850 A.D. 7,000 to 5,000 years ago 1850 to 1940 A.D. 16. Potential source(s) of error in computing long-term trends in global mean temperature: changes in the quality of weather instruments shifts in location of weather stations urbanization All of the above are correct 17. Solar irradiance appears to vary _______ with sunspot activity. directly inversely 18. A 70-year period of greatly reduced sunspot number is know as the Little Ice Age. medieval warm period Climatic Optimum Maunder minimum 19. Milankovitch cycles may alter the climate by changing solar irradiance ocean currents the number of sunspots the distribution of solar radiation by latitude and season 20. It is likely that the eruption of Mount Pinatubo in June 1991 had no measurable impact on global climate caused temporary cooling over large areas of the globe affected the climate only in the area immediately downwind of the volcano None of the above is correct Score = Correct answers: [~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Back to Top ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~] Web Site created by David Dimmer Last Updated on December 11, 1998