Why is the Dfb (humid continental) climate in a band just north of the band of Dfa climate?

The following questions are based on the diagram of the Köppen climate distribution on a hypothetical continent (Figure 23-2). It may also be helpful to compare the hypothetical continent with the map of actual climate distribution color Map T-29 in the back of the Lab Manual and Figure 23-3 showing the influence of the seasonal shifts of the ITCZ and subtropical highs along the west coasts of continents. In answering the questions, consider both the characteristics of a climate and the dominant controls producing that climate.


Higher latitude results in colder winters.

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Which air mass appears to predominately influence the humid subtropical region?

A) Maritime equatorial (mE) B) Continental tropical (cT) C) Continental polar (cP) D) Maritime tropical (mT) E) Maritime polar (mP)

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The Challenger Deep has previously been measured to have a depth of 10,994 meters. You have been sent to the part of the Pacific Ocean to verify this depth with an echo sounder

Assuming that Depth = 1/2 (1,500 m/sec*echo travel time), approximately how many seconds should it take for the sound wave to leave your ship, strike the bottom of the Challenger Deep, and return if the depth is correct? A) 10.5 seconds B) 14.66 seconds C) 17.39 seconds D) 22.67 seconds

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A car has a head-on collision with another car of the same momentum. An identical car driving with the same speed as the first car runs into an enormously massive wall. The greatest impulse will occur on the car that is in the collision with the

A) approaching car. B) wall. C) Both impulses will be the same.

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A wind shift from south or southwest to northwest is commonly associated with the passage of a ________ front

A) neither warm nor cold B) cold C) stationary D) warm

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