World Geography
Chapter 3 Test I Review
Mr. Botkin

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

1. What is weather?




2. What is climate?




3. Which three characteristics define climate?




4. What determines which hemisphere receives the Sun’s most direct rays at a given time of the year?




5. Which part of Earth is warm year-round?




6. Which part of Earth is cold all year?




7. What is temperature?




8. What causes air pressure changes at
different places on Earth?




9. What causes low pressure?

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10. What happens to rising air?




11. What might clouds bring?




12. Which type of pressure causes unstable
conditions?




13. What causes high pressure?




14. What happens to sinking air?




15. Which three words describe weather which
is under the control of high pressure?




16. What can high pressure bring in summer?




17. What can high pressure bring in winter?




18. What are the four major air pressure zones
and where is each found?





19. What is wind?




20. What are doldrums?




21. What are prevailing winds?




22. What are trade winds?




23. What are westerlies?




24. What are polar winds?




25. What is a front?




26. What is the jet stream?




27. Why do land areas near oceans not have
great temperature extremes?




28. What is evaporation?




29. What is humidity?


30. Which temperatures can hold more water
vapor?




31. When does condensation occur?




32. What is condensation?




33. What happens if the liquid droplets become large enough?




34. What are the four common forms of
precipitation?




35. Where do the greatest amounts of
precipitation fall?




36. Where do the smallest amounts of
precipitation fall?




37. What is elevation?




38. What impact does elevation have on
temperature?




39. What is the orographic effect?

40. Due to the orographic effect, what occurs
on the windward side?




41. What happens as the air moves down the
leeward side of a mountain?




42. What is the drier area on the leeward side
called?




43. What is commonly found on the leeward
side?




44. Which country experiences more tornadoes than any other country?




45. Why are tropical storms usually smaller
than extratropical storms?




46. Which tropical storms start in the Atlantic
Ocean?




47. Which tropical storms start in the western
Pacific Ocean?




48. What are two characteristics of hurricanes
and typhoons?



49. What are four effects that climate and
weather have on how people live their
lives?









50. ON THE BACK, REPRODUCE THE
DIAGRAM WE MADE IN CLASS OF
THE MAJOR AIR PRESSURE
ZONES AND THE WINDS.