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NAU BIO 182 FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE 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 equ...

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NAU BIO 182 FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE

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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




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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


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