Exam part 2

the lithosphere is made up of all the living things on earth

A model is a useful simplification of a more complex reality

Geographers are concerned with how physical and human process affect, have affected or will affect our planet and its natural and human environments.

Some environmental changes that occur on Earth accumulate very slowly so that careful scientific study over long term is required to understand what is occurring

The arrangement of multiple individuals of the same type of feature or event over Earth’s surface is the

An adjustment in one part of a system in response to a change that occurs in another part is called ___

2. Mercator maps show the greatest amount of distortion in the the _____

Averaged over the year, high latitudes receives less insolation than low latitudes

The changing distance between Earth and the Sun has virtually no relationship to the seasons.

In the mid-latitude zone of the Southern Hemisphere, minimum insolation occurs on___

Earth rotational axis is inclined _____ off of being perpendicular to the plane of the ecliptic

Solar radiation is considered___

Both the annual and the daily ranges of temperature are larger in continental locations than in coastal locations

Greenhouse gases absorb incoming solar radiation

Increase in __ in the atmosphere due to human activities have resulted in what has been referred to as the enhanced greenhouse effect

If earth did not have an atmosphere, the difference between daytime and nighttime tempertautres would be ___.

the foam of energy that is stored in gaseous water during evaporation is called ___

the percentage of solar radiation reflected from a surface is called__? , albedo , absorption

Earth’s system of winds and pressure cells is response to the differential heating of earth’s region by insolation

Where does the coriolis effect have the greatest impact?

El nino is time of

Clouds typically develop because___

The moist adiabatic lapse rate cools faster with rising altitude than dry adiabatic lapse rate

The total amount of atmospheric water remains nearly constant

Condensation in the atmosphere always results in precipitation

The drier the air and the lower the relative humidity, the greater the evaporation rate will be

Increased wind decrease evaporation