climate Multiple Choice Test

Warm with high amounts of rain year-round, in a few places, monsoons create extreme wet seasons.

Warm all year; distinct rainy and dry seasons; at least 20 inches ( 50 cm) of rain during the summer.

Sunny and dry; less than 10 inches (25cm) of rain a year; hot in the tropics; cooler with wide daytime temperatures ranges in middle latitudes.

About 10-20 inches ( 25-50 cm) of precipitation a year; hot summer and cooler winters with wide temperatures ranges during the day.

Dry, sunny, warm summers; mild, wetter winters; rain averages 15-20 inches (30-50 cm) a year.

Humid with hot summers and mild winters; rain year-around; in paths of hurricanes and typhoons.

Cloudy, mild summers and cool, rainy winters; strong ocean influence.

Four distinct seasons; long, cold winters and short warm summers; average precipitation varies.

Freezing cold; snow and ice; little precipitation.

Wide range of temperatures and precipitation amounts, depending on elevation and location.

Cold all year; very long, cold winters and very short, cool summers; little precipitation; permafrost

Extremes of temperatures; long, cold winters and short, warm summers; little perception.

How people, goods, and ideas, get from one place to another

Places where the boundaries are defined by a unifying characteristic such as climate, population, landforms, or history.

How people affect the environment, and how the environment affects people.

Geographers use absolute and relative versions of this to describe where things are in the world.

To get this you need both the physical features and the human features of a location or a region.

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