-translate station symbol
-isobar interpretation
-fronts, frontal weather, frontal motions
-tornado/hurricane forces, danger zones, & warning signs (videos)
- climographs interpretation (temperature & precipitation)
- major (Koppen 1st letter; distinctive "common name") world climate characteristics and locations
- be able to interpret combinations of variables (values & signs)
- what expected values & signs for different environments (biomes)
- determine soil moisture SEASON by water budget variable values & signs
- know the five soil-forming processes, and typical circumstances where they prevail
- know where field capacity & infiltration capacity are high/low in Portage County
- know how coarse/fine texture is associated with high/low field & infiltration capacity
- know basic relationship between AE and NPP
- determine likely biome/geographic site for specified AE or NPP
- interpret Im and PE values and signs
- know typical associations between biomes, climates, and soils
- be able to determine dominant kind (form) of plant
- be able to associate plant forms with particular habitats and/or communities
- know what plants occur at what stages of succession after various disturbances
- interpret (value) Holdridge ratios (and gradients of Holdridge ratios)
- What likely values PE and HR as lat/alt/continentality changes (geog. trends)
- likely values of PE and HR for different BIOMES/geographic sites
[Click here to reach practice questions for this lab]
[NOTE!!! - these will NOT be the exact same questions that you will receive. These are EXAMPLES ONLY from prior exams; I never reuse exact questions.
[Treat each question as if it is fill-in-the-blank first; then leftclick the links to view the multiple choice list of answer options.]
1. Which site [on the map above] MOST RECENTLY had a drop in temperature, and quite possibly had thunderstorms also? [Weather Maps]
2. Which station symbol [on the map above] represents the second lowest relative humidity, the clearest skies, strong northwesterly winds, and high barometric pressure? [Weather Maps]
3. Considering all three of the main damaging agents in hurricanes (rain, wind, and surge), which site [on the map above] was the SAFEST place when the hurricane occurred? [Weather Maps & Severe Weather]
4. A Schmeeckle acre that became and remained [ - ? - ] 30 years ago could now have 100 [ - ? - ] and 15 tamaracks for trees, but where the disturbance was most intense [ - ? - ] would probably dominate by the definition that we used. [Habitat Diversity]
5. A single month having PE=712mm, deltaST= [ - ? - ] mm, ST=75mm, AE=712mm, and S=0mm indicates utilization in a [ - ? - ] environment where field capacity is 100mm. [Water Budgets] NOTE: 25mm = 1.0"
6. For a site whose water budget graph shows surplus season, the condition of [ - ? - ] must occur during the surplus season? [Water Budgets] NOTE: 25mm = 1.0"
7. [ - ? - ] probably is forming the soil under the steppe at Chadron, Nebraska. [Soils]
8. Finding a buried dark-colored mollisol (with a deep organic-rich A horizon) suggests a [ - ? - ] and [ - ? - ] PAST climate (at a time when calcification occurred, and Im was -5). [Soils]
9. The climograph below most probably represents the city of [ - ? - ].
10. The climograph below would least likely have [ - ? - ] vegetation.
11. The lowest NPP in North America would probably occur at [ - ? - ], where the lowest effective moisture is available.
12. You probably would find the lowest likelihood for a wildfire, because very little fuel load of leaf litter accumulates, at [ - ? - ].
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