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GEOG 101 Exam 2 - Questions & Answers Clouds will form if air is: cooled to the dew point The response of an organism to the amount of light it receives in a day is termed ________. Photoperiodism The rainy slope of a hill or mountain causing orographic precipitation is called the: windward slope In a tropical rainforest climate: annual temperature ranges are small In the tropical wet (rainforest) climate, precipitation is mainly: Convectional If a wind is traveling from west to east, the wind ...

GEOG 101 Exam 1 - Questions & Answers Nitrogen is the ________ component of the atmosphere in terms of volume. main The Sun's rays are directly overhead at the ________ on or about December 21. Tropic of Capricorn The farthest north the vertical rays of the Sun ever reach north of the equator, occurs on or about ________. June 21 On June 21, the Sun's ray are directly over the ________. Tropic of Cancer What process explains the slow rate of snowmelt on a sunny day when the air temperature is...

Advection - Horizontal movement of air Transmission - ability of a medium to allow EM radiation to pass through Absorption - ability of a molecule to capture incident energy Evaporation - liquid water changes its physical state to gas -Puts moisture into the atmosphere -Absorbs energy -When water evaporates, heat is absorbed, & the surroundings are cooled Condensation - water vapor (gas) changes its physical state to liquid water -Removes water vapor from atmosphere -Releas...

T/F Soils are a dynamic natural body made up of fine materials covering earth's surface in which plants grow and are composed of both mineral and organic matters. - True Which of the following ions are important for acidity (ph)? - Hydrogen The catena sequence in soils is based on: - parent material and landscape relief The ability to transfer chemical cations between their surfaces and the soil solution to enable plant roots to take them up is referred to as - Cation-exchange cap...

Lake Baikal - -largest and deepest lake in world -UNESCO world heritage site -Located in Siberia -Soviet Union wrecked its waters through pollution -Now under regulations to improve water quality Amur Leopard Park - -land of the leopard national park -Protects amur leopard from extinction -Located in Siberia Why is the population of Russia concentrated in the west? - -resources are concentrated in the west -Climate is calmer in the west -Agriculture is possible -Government poli...

GEOG 101 Who was the founder of Buddhism? What Chinese city was controlled by the British from 1843 until 1997? What is the name of the Hydroelectric Dam located on the Yangtze River? Which endangered animal lives almost exclusively in China and if you're caught killing one, you are immediately executed? 'Tank Man' is one of the most famous pictures of the 20th century. It was taken in 1989 during a student-led pro-democracy protest in which public square or in which city? In what city is Pu...