NAU BIO 182 FINAL EXAM STUDY
GUIDE WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
Climate - Answer️️ -prevailing weather pattern in a region
-Includes temperature, precipitation, wind, and light
- Climate determines the occurrence of different biomes - major
community types
Climate: Convection Cells - Answer️...
NAU BIO 182 FINAL EXAM STUDY
GUIDE WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
Climate - Answer✔️✔️-prevailing weather pattern in a region
-Includes temperature, precipitation, wind, and light
- Climate determines the occurrence of different biomes - major
community types
Climate: Convection Cells - Answer✔️✔️-- Based on warmth at
equator causing air to rise and flow north and south toward poles
- Air would cool and fall, flowing back to the equator
Coriolis Effect - Answer✔️✔️-- The way Earth's rotation makes winds
in the Northern Hemisphere curve to the right and winds in the
Southern Hemisphere curve to the left.
- adds in the effect of Earth's rotation, deflecting surface flow
westward
Climate: Major Biomes - Answer✔️✔️-- Determined by temperature
differences and wind patterns
Adiabatic cooling - Answer✔️✔️-- increasing elevation leads to 10C
drop for every 1,000m
Rain Shadow - Answer✔️✔️-Warm, moist air flows up mountain and
cools releasing precipitation, leeward side allows drier air to
descend, forming area of low precipitation
Sea Breezes - Answer✔️✔️-- Cool daytime breezes in costal areas
- During the day, land heats up and air rises, pulling cool ocean air
to replace it
- At night, land cools quicker than the sea and the pattern reverses-
causes offshore breezes.
- The sea moderates costal and island temperatures
10 major terrestrial biomes - Answer✔️✔️-1. Tropical rain forest
2. Tropical deciduous forest
3a. Temperate rain forest
3b. Temperate coniferous forest (taiga)
4. Temperate deciduous forest
5. Tropical grassland (savanna)
6. Temperate grassland
(prairie)
7. Hot desert
8. Cold desert
9. Tundra
10. Mountain ranges
Terrestrial biomes are classified according to physical factors -
Answer✔️✔️-average annual precipitation and temperature
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