Concept Quiz 4

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This activity contains 6 questions.

__________ climates prevail on the eastern side of continents between 25 and 40° latitude.

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	B
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	E

The rainy nature of the wet tropical climate is due in part to the zone of converging trade winds called the __________ zone.

tropical jet streamequatorial high pressureintertropical convergenceequatorial convergencethermal expansion

A dry-summer subtropical climate is often referred to as a __________ climate.

MediterraneanCanadianCaliforniaAustralianEuropean

Which major climate group is NOT found in the Southern Hemisphere?

ABCDE

The southeastern United States is dominated by a __________ climate.

dry-summer subtropicalwet tropicaltundrahumid continentalhumid subtropical

	In North America, the marine west coast climate (Cfb) extends from near the United States–Canada border northward as a narrow belt into southern Alaska.

	True False

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