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Chapter 7 Study Guide
7-1 What factors influence climate?
CORE CASE STUDY:
A. What determines the location of biomes?
B. What are the three major types of climate?
C. What are the three major biomes?
1. Compare and contrast weather and climate?
2. What are the two major factors that determine the climate of a region?
3. What are the other factors that help determine climate?
4. Explain the factors that affect global air circulation?
A. Uneven heating of earth’s surface:
B. Rotation of the earth on its axis:
C. Seasonal changes in temperature and precipitation:
D. Properties of air, water, and land:
5. Explain the ways ocean currents influence climate?
6. What are greenhouse gasses? List some examples
7. How do these gasses have an effect on the climate?
8. How can topographic features have an effect on local and regional microclimates?
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9. What is the rainshadow effect?
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7-2 How does climate affect the nature and location of biomes?
10. What is a biome? What characteristics help determine a biome?
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11. What are characteristics of a desert?
SCIENCE FOCUS:
A. What types of adaptions do plants and animals have to survive the harsh conditions in desert environments?
12. What are characteristics of a grassland?
13. What are characteristics of chaparral?
14. What are the characteristics of forests?
15. Why are mountain and arctic biomes important ecologically?
16. What events are degrading the arctic and mountain biomes?
7-3 How have we affected the world’s terrestrial ecosystems?
17. How much of the world terrestrial ecosystems have humans damaged or destroyed?
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