Unit 12 | Higher Education | Oxford University Press Canada

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Question 1:

The heat associated with evaporation is:
a) latent heat of vaporization
b) latent heat of fusion
c) melting
d) transpiration
e) potential vaporization

Question 2:

The hydrologic cycle involves all of the following except:
a) precipitation
b) evapotranspiration
c) runoff
d) hydrogen transfer
e) rain and snow

Question 3:

When air is completely saturated, it has reached its:
a) melting point
b) dew point
c) boiling point
d) water balance point
e) deposition point

Question 4:

Clouds in the higher levels of the atmosphere are called:
a) cumulus
b) cumulonimbus
c) cirrus
d) stratus
e) altostratus

Question 5:

The upper midlatitudes exhibit:
a) water surpluses
b) water deficits
c) lowest precipitation totals
d) no evaporation
e) highest precipitation totals

Question 6:

Precipitation is lowest at:
a) the Equator
b) the Prime Meridian
c) subtropical latitudes
d) lower latitudes
e) the highest latitudes

Question 7:

Clouds require condensation nuclei.
a) True
b) False

Question 8:

Water cannot change form directly from ice to water vapour.
a) True
b) False

Question 9:

Evapotranspiration does not include moisture lost from photosynthesis.
a) True
b) False

Question 10:

Globally, most people live where there are great water balance surpluses.
a) True
b) False

Question 11:

Hail is a form of precipitation.
a) True
b) False

Question 12:

Evaporation requires a vapour-pressure gradient.
a) True
b) False

Higher Education

Physical Geography: The Global Environment, Canadian Edition - Unit 11