Geography 1111L, test one.   Monday October 11.


1. If your starting location is 55? N and 30? E, and you move 80?S and 90?W, what will your new location’s coordinates be? __________________________

2. What are the coordinates of the antipode of Ushkanii Island, Russia (54? N,  109?W)?

3. If you’re at 50?N on May 15, what will the position of the sun be at solar noon?

4. There are ___ (number) ___________  (name of units)  in a degree, and ___ (number) ___________  (name of units) in a minute.   There are _________ degrees between the Equator and the North Pole, ________ degrees between the Prime meridian and 180 degrees longitude.

5. The ___________________ is the name of the event which occurs when the subsolar point is over the Tropic of Cancer.

6. The Tropic of cancer, by the way, is at which latitude? ___________________

7. The other tropic is called the Tropic of ___________________ , and is located at which latitude? _____________

8. t/f: the distance between a degree of latitude and the next is usually about 111 km, while the distance between degrees of longitude is dependent upon latitude.

9. If it is 1am Saturday, in London UK, will it be earlier in Athens GA or later according to our clock?   What day will it be?

 10. he ____________________ is the even which occurs when the subsolar point is at the equator.

11. The temperature difference expected between the base of a mountain and that expected at a higher elevation is called the ________________ .

12. Name the 4 thermal layers of the atmosphere in order from ground (first) to highest (last), and whether the temperatures generally increase or decrease with height in that layer:
______________________, temperature ___________________ with height.
______________________, temperature ___________________ with height.
______________________, temperature ___________________ with height.
______________________, temperature ___________________ with height.

13. Calculation of wind chill factor depends on ____________________ and ___________________ .

14. The thermal energy used in evaporation and released in condensation is called ________________________________ .

15. The annual temperature differences between continental and maritime climates are largely due to the heating and cooling differences between ___________________ and __________________ .

16. Temperature measurements are made at the base of a mountain, elevation 500 meters, and are found to be 20 degrees C.    At 2500 meters, the temperature is found to be only 10 degrees C.   This temperature difference is called the ___________________________ .

17. What is the lower elevation's temperature in Fahrenheit? [convert from C]

18. What is the temperature difference between the two elevations in Fahrenheit? [hint for these 2: remember 1.8 and 32...]

19. There are two climographs attached, numbers 1 and 2.   #1 is a ________________________ climate, while #2 is a _____________________ climate. [continental vs. maritime]
 20. The average precipitation for climograph #3 in June is _______________", and the average temperature in January there  is about ________________ degrees F.

21. Temperature maps commonly use lines of constant (equal) temperature called __________________ to portray the spatial pattern of temperature.
            isobars
            temperature lines
            thermal equators
            isotherms
            wind-chill potential

22. Everything else being equal, you would expect higher temperatures associated with _______________.
            high longitudes
            low longitudes
            low elevations
            high elevations

22.5 [ooops] ___________________ has a high albedo, ________________ has a low albedo, and _________________ has a medium albedo.

23. As an air parcel rises to move over a mountain, _________________ lifting occurs.

24. As this air cools from 18 degrees C at sea level to 8 degrees at 1000 M.  This is because of the air [ WHICH: expanding - contracting ] and cooling at the ___________________ rate.

25. Using the figure provided at the end of the test, determine the relative humidity of a parcel of air at 10 degrees C which has 5mb of vapor pressure.______________________

26. Suppose an air mass warms as it moves over a land surface, but no water vapor is added or lost. The relative humidity will __ while the specific humidity will __.
          not change/not change
           fall/not change
          not change/fall
          fall/rise
          rise/not change

27. The dew point for this air will be ___________________ degrees C.

28. The _____________ _____________________ uses 2 thermometers, one called the wet bulb and one called the dry bulb, to measure/calculate ___________________ and __________________ . (and also temperature, of course!)

29. The area of dry climate on the leeward side of mountains is called the ____________ ______________ .

30. What is a likely temperature of point X on the temperature map attached at the end of the test?