Directions: Answer each of the following questions by writing a response only in the area provided. The answers may be found in your notes on chapter three.

1. What is weather?







2. What is climate?







3. Which three characteristics define climate?





4. What is Earth’s source of solar energy?





5. What does Earth’s tilt determine?








6. Which parts of Earth have distinct seasons?






7. Which parts of Earth are warm year-round?
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8. Which parts of Earth are cold year-round?





9. What is temperature?






10. What does unequal heating of Earth’s
surface cause?





11. What causes low pressure?






12. What happens to rising air?







13. What happens to air as it cools?






14. What might clouds bring?





15. What causes high pressure?

16. What happens to sinking air?






17. Describe the weather caused by high
pressure.







18. What are the four major air pressure zones?







19. What is wind?






20. In which direction does wind always flow?






21. What are prevailing winds?






22. What are three types of prevailing winds?






23. What are trade winds?

24. What are westerlies?







25. What are polar winds?







26. What is a front?







27. What is the jet stream?







29. Why do land areas near oceans not have
such great temperature ranges as areas in
interiors of continents do?










30. What effect do ocean currents have on
climate?