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Which of the following biomes exists at the highest of earth’s latitudes (closest to the poles)?

Air circulation in a LOW pressure system is always…(sketch a diagram to be sure)

 The zone of low pressure and calms located near the equator is known as the ____.  

True or false: During the fall equinox, there will be 12 hours of daylight and 12 hours of darkness in the northern hemisphere only.

Which one of the following statements is true of temperature inversions.

The concept of parallelism refers to the fact that …

After air rises up and over a mountain range, a Chinook (or Foehn) wind will be_________on the leeward plain.

Problem solving question: You may use scratch paper for calculations. If the temperature on the WSU campus at 4500 feet were 50 degrees F., what would you estimate the temperature to be on the top of Mount Ogden at 9500 feet? Base your calculation on the normal lapse rate (or environmental lapse rate).

A pressure belt of diverging air found near 30 degrees North latitude, and also near 30 degrees South latitude:

El Nino events are caused by a general ________ of tropical waters near the equator in the Pacific Ocean.