City College of San Francisco- Physical Geography 1
Summer 2001
Study Guide for the First Midterm
Chapter 1
Review Questions 1, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16, 18,
20
- related to question #7 explain the role of plants in the
cycling of carbon between the abiotic spheres.
- related to question #18 What are the four ways a map projection
can be distorted?
Chapter 2
Review Questions 7, 12, 14, 17, 20, 22, 24, 25, 26, 28, 29,
30, 32, 33
- related to question #22 Explain the significance of the following
parallels of latitude - 0, 23.5, 66.5, & 90 degrees.
- related to question #26 Why does the temperature of the atmosphere
both increase and decrease as you go up in altitude?
- related to question #33 Why is there so little mixing of
air between the troposphere and stratosphere?
Chapter 3
Review Questions 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 12, 13, 14, 18, 19
- related to question #18 Why do they give two weather forcasts
for the Bay Area?
- related to question #19 How is the Sahara Desert like the
back of your refrigerator? Why do both get so hot?
Chapter 4
Review Questions 1, 4, 5, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 19, 22, 23, 24,
25
- related to question #9 Why is there no coriolis effect at
the equator?
- related to question #10 What force accounts for the difference
between wind direction near the ground and wind direction at
high altitude?
- related to question #25 What might happen to the climate
in Europe if global warming interrupts the flow of the Atlantic
Gulf Stream?
Chapter 5
Review Questions 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 13, 17, 18, 22, 24, 25,
26
- related to question #7 How is energy transferred from the
inside to the outside of a refrigerator?
- related to question # 26 Why do clouds form well in advance
of a warm front, while a cold front produces clouds just as it
arrives?
Chapter 6
Review Questions 1, 3, 4, 5, 11, 17, 20, 22, 23.
- What can you personally do to reduce your emissions of greenhouse
gasses?
- related to question #11 - be prepared to answer the same
question about tropical rainforest and desert climates.
- What are the major controls on climate? What determines the
location of tropical rainforest and desert climates?
Chapter 7 - excerpts
Review Question 10
Chapter 15
Review Questions 1, 4, 9, 10, 11, 12, 18, 23.
- related to question #12 What effects are modern agricultural
techniques having on a living soil system?
- related to question #18 According to lecture, what
have been the implications of salinization for civilizations
around the world?
Chapter 16
Review Questions 1, 2, 4, 5, 8, 10, 12, 15, 16, 17, 22, 24,
25, 26, 33, 37.
- related to question #16 According to the video Web of
Life, what is the significance of a 'keystone' species?
- related to question #17 Why does greater biological diversity
in an ecosystem lead to greater stability?
- related to question #25 According to the video Web of
Life, how much do we know about the ecology and individual
species of the rainforest biome?