Question 3 Choose The Appropriate Description Of The Geographic Area Circled In Red On The Koppen Climate Map Below W 1 (787.54 KiB) Viewed 8 times
Question 3 Choose the appropriate description of the geographic area (circled in red) on the Koppen climate map below. World Map of Köppen-Geiger Climate Classification updated with CRU TS 2.3 temperature and VASCO v11 precipitation data 1951 to 2000 Af Am As Aw BWK BW BSK RS Ca C Cfe C Cab Cse Cwa Cab Ce Dia Db Die Di Dus Isb Dhe Relation 8.5 deg la poppengriget.wi Des Dub Dec Ded EF ET Main climates A: equatorial Barid warm temperat De snow K: polar Precipitation W: desert S: steppe fully bemid summer dry wister dry O dry hot summers, can be highly prone to fires cool and moist with consistent rainfall year round O high elevations create prominent rain shadow on eastern slopes wet and dry seasons dominated by grasslands Temperature k cold arid F: polar frest cool summer &extremely contrata polar tendra Vision of April 2006 2 pts Kone, M. 1 CC. Beck Band 7. Rabel 2006 Wald Map of Koppen Golper C Clasification updated Mel 2, 15, 29-363 Question 4 Which of the following statements about the Cowardin et al. (1979) "water" classification system is NOT TRUE? as a hierarchical system, one can build in finer and finer descriptions of the types uses water flow patterns as one of the first major descriptors of types nomenclature (terms) are sufficiently generic to apply to the entire country (U.S.) there are five systems at the uppermost level, covering the gradient from headwaters to oceans 2 pts used as the basis for classifying and labeling National Wetland Inventory maps
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