12.6: Climate- Challenge 1

1. A location's average wind speed and direction, humidity, and air temperature can describe the location's ___.

climate

2. ___ is the long-term average of weather for a region.

Climate

3. The ___ receives the most solar radiation over the course of a year.

equator

4. At the ___ the Sun never rises very high in the sky.

poles

5. The Intertropical Convergence Zone is also known as the ___.

Doldrums

6. Winds blowing from the sub-tropical high pressure zones to the sub-polar low pressure zones are the ___.

westerlies

7. Winds are caused primarily by ___.

pressure differences

8. Coastal ___ brings cold, deep water up to the ocean surface off of California, which contributes to the cool coastal temperatures.

upwelling

9. A continental climate is more extreme than a coastal climate and has ___ winters and ___ summers.

cold; hot

10. Why is Mount Kilimanjaro covered by snow at the peak even though it is located near the equator?

it's very tall--temperature decreases with altitude in the troposphere

11. The Great Basin, which includes the Bonneville Salt Flats of Utah, is ___ because ___.

very dry; it is in the rainshadow of the Sierra Nevada Mountains

12. Air pressure and air temperature ___ with increasing altitude.

decrease