Unit 9 | Student Practice Quizzes | Physical Geography: The Global Environment, Second Edition

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Question 1:

The Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone or Equatorial Low (ITCZ) is an area of ________.
a) rising air
b) sinking air
c) cooled air
d) relatively stationary air
e) polluted air

Question 2:

The Westerlies are located in both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres in belts at ________.
a) 60–90 degrees N & S
b) 30–60 degrees N & S
c) 30–90 degrees N & S
d) 10 degrees N & S
e) 0–5 degrees N & S

Question 3:

The upper atmosphere is dominated by a westerly air movement called a ________.
a) trough
b) zonal flow
c) ridge
d) solar flow
e) zonal flow

Question 4:

In summer in coastal Asia, reversing winds bring the ________.
a) dry monsoon
b) wet monsoon
c) chinook winds
d) Aleutian low
e) Aleutian high

Question 5:

The subtropical highs at 30 degrees north and south latitudes are regions where air is ________.
a) warmed and subsides
b) cooled and rises
c) cooled and subsides
d) warmed and rises
e) fairly stationary

Question 6:

The boundary in both hemispheres where air converges from the Polar Easterlies and the Westerlies is the ________.
a) subtropical high
b) Polar Front
c) Polar High
d) ITCZ
e) mid-latitude high

Question 7:

Hadley cell circulation was a simplified model used to describe ________.
a) zonal winds
b) easterly winds
c) westerly winds
d) northeast trade winds
e) southeast trade winds

Question 8:

Air returning to the Equator from the Subtropical Highs is called ________.
a) Trade Wind
b) Westerlies
c) Polar Easterlies
d) the Equitorial Low
e) the Polar High

Question 9:

Semi-permanent highs are created by the latitudinal variation in heating. Which is not a semi-permanent high?
a) Bermuda (Azoric) High
b) Pacific (Hawaiian) High
c) Canadian High
d) Siberian High
e) Atlantic High

Question 10:

Upper atmospheric circulation is dominated by ________.
a) high flow
b) low flow
c) zonal flow
d) cross flow
e) complex flow

Question 11:

Which is not a Northern Hemisphere jet stream?
a) Polar Front jet stream
b) subtropical jet stream
c) tropical easterly jet stream
d) tropical westerly jet stream

Question 12:

Meridional air exchange refers to what direction?
a) East–west
b) North–south
c) North–east
d) South–west
e) Westerly

Question 13:

Azonal flows are important because they ________.
a) correct the heat imbalance between the poles and the Equator
b) keep cold conditions north and warm conditions south
c) circulate the upper atmosphere with the lower atmosphere
d) shift windflow from the Indian Ocean to the Pacific Ocean
e) are most pronounced over Bermuda

Question 14:

Rossby waves are a form of ________.
a) zonal flow
b) azonal flow
c) Equatorial flow
d) Upper Mid-latitude Flow
e) Polar flow

Question 16:

The ITCZ is a region of low pressure.
a) True
b) False

Question 17:

A Polar High is only found in the Northern Hemisphere.
a) True
b) False

Question 18:

Air deflected sharply from the Polar Highs form the Polar Easterlies.
a) True
b) False

Question 19:

The ITCZ seasonally migrates less into the Southern Hemisphere than into the Northern Hemisphere.
a) True
b) False

Question 20:

The Canadian High is stronger than the Siberian High.
a) True
b) False

Question 21:

The jet streams are tube-like areas of westerly airflow in the upper atmosphere.
a) True
b) False

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Physical Geography: The Global Environment, Second Edition - Unit 9