TRAVEL AGENT PROFICIENCY ALL ANSWERS AND
QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔Plains - ✔✔Flat, rolling lands
✔✔Plateau/Tableland - ✔✔Higher than the surrounding land and has one steep side
(cliff)
✔✔How much water covers the earth's surface? - ✔✔70% of the Earth's surface is
water
✔✔4 Oceans - ✔✔Pacific, Atlantic, Indian and Artic
✔✔smaller bodies of water - ✔✔seas, gulfs and bays
✔✔Strait - ✔✔A narrow passage of water the connects two larger bodies of water (Strait
of Gibraltar connects the Atlantic ocean and the Mediterranean Sea)
✔✔Lagoons - ✔✔Narrow bodies of water that form between the mainland and barrier
islands or reefs, mostly connected by tidal inlets
✔✔Tides - ✔✔Rhythmic rise and fall of ocean waters that occurs twice a day that are
based on the gravitational pull of the moon
✔✔Waves - ✔✔Movement of the ocean's surface
✔✔Currents - ✔✔Cold or warm rivers of water that flow within the ocean
✔✔Cause of tsunami - ✔✔Earthquakes and volcanos under water
✔✔Two types of currents - ✔✔Vertical flow from the bottom and back. Horizontal are
wind driven currents
,✔✔Coriolis Effect - ✔✔Currents tend to curve north above the equator and south below
the equator due to the earth's spin.
✔✔How much of the earth's water is freshwater? - ✔✔3%
✔✔Glaciers - ✔✔Huge masses of ice that move slowly over land
✔✔Lakes - ✔✔Bodies of water surrounded by land
✔✔Karst - ✔✔An area underlain by limestone that is honeycombed with sinkholes,
underground streams and caves
✔✔River - ✔✔Ribbon of water flowing over the land
✔✔Source/Headwater - ✔✔Beginning source of river (melting glacier, snow melting
from mountain, overflowing lake, etc
✔✔Tributaries - ✔✔Streams that flow into rivers
✔✔Marsh - ✔✔A river may form a marsh as it nears the ocean
✔✔Delta - ✔✔A long, flat, low-lying plain at the river's mouth
✔✔Tidal Bore - ✔✔An abrupt front of high waters from the sea rushing up the mouth of
a river. (Amazon River, Bay of Fundy)
✔✔Cliamte - ✔✔Sum of weather over a period of time
✔✔Weather - ✔✔State of the environment in the moment
✔✔Heat Index - ✔✔Combination of the temperature and relative humidity that the
government uses to warn people of potential heat dangers
✔✔Climates are the product of - ✔✔latitude, elevation, topography and distance from
water
✔✔Tropical Wet - ✔✔Always hot and humid. Heavy precipitation
✔✔Tropical Wet and Dry - ✔✔Always hot with alternate wet and dry seasons
✔✔Semiarid - ✔✔Hot to cold. Light precipitation
✔✔Desert - ✔✔Hot to cool. Very little precipitation
, ✔✔Subtropical Dry Summer - ✔✔Hot dry summers, mild rainy winters
✔✔Humid Subtropicals - ✔✔Warm to hot summers and cool winters
✔✔Humid Oceanic - ✔✔Warm Summers and cool winters. Moderate precipitation
✔✔Humid Continental - ✔✔Mild summers, cold winters. Moderate precipitation
✔✔Subarctic - ✔✔Short, cool summers and long, cold winters
✔✔Tundra - ✔✔Always cold with brief, chilly summers. Little precipitation
✔✔Icecap - ✔✔Always cold, precipitation almost always snow
✔✔Mediterranean climate - ✔✔have warm, dry summers and mild, wet winters
✔✔Temperature - ✔✔The degrees of hotness or coldness measured by a thermometer
(Celcius, fahrenheit, centigrade). 64 is too cold for sitting around, 86 too hot for activity
✔✔Atmospheric Pressure - ✔✔The weight of the atmosphere as measured by a
barometer. Changes in pressure signal weather change.
✔✔Wind - ✔✔Air movement caused by an uneven heating of the earth by the sun
✔✔Humidity - ✔✔How much water vapor the air contains
✔✔Precipitation - ✔✔Rain, hail, snow, sleet when water and winds interact with the
temperature
✔✔Clouds - ✔✔Consist of tiny water droplets or ice crystals
✔✔Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn - ✔✔The highest and lowest points that
the sun can reached directly overhead
✔✔Trade Winds - ✔✔Winds from the northeast blowing towards the equator in the
northern hemisphere, southeast towards the equator in the southern hemisphere
✔✔Westerlies - ✔✔Currents of high air above the earth coming from the northeast
towards the equator in the northeast hemisphere and southwest towards the equator in
the southern hemisphere
✔✔Altitude - ✔✔Height in the atmosphere
QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔Plains - ✔✔Flat, rolling lands
✔✔Plateau/Tableland - ✔✔Higher than the surrounding land and has one steep side
(cliff)
✔✔How much water covers the earth's surface? - ✔✔70% of the Earth's surface is
water
✔✔4 Oceans - ✔✔Pacific, Atlantic, Indian and Artic
✔✔smaller bodies of water - ✔✔seas, gulfs and bays
✔✔Strait - ✔✔A narrow passage of water the connects two larger bodies of water (Strait
of Gibraltar connects the Atlantic ocean and the Mediterranean Sea)
✔✔Lagoons - ✔✔Narrow bodies of water that form between the mainland and barrier
islands or reefs, mostly connected by tidal inlets
✔✔Tides - ✔✔Rhythmic rise and fall of ocean waters that occurs twice a day that are
based on the gravitational pull of the moon
✔✔Waves - ✔✔Movement of the ocean's surface
✔✔Currents - ✔✔Cold or warm rivers of water that flow within the ocean
✔✔Cause of tsunami - ✔✔Earthquakes and volcanos under water
✔✔Two types of currents - ✔✔Vertical flow from the bottom and back. Horizontal are
wind driven currents
,✔✔Coriolis Effect - ✔✔Currents tend to curve north above the equator and south below
the equator due to the earth's spin.
✔✔How much of the earth's water is freshwater? - ✔✔3%
✔✔Glaciers - ✔✔Huge masses of ice that move slowly over land
✔✔Lakes - ✔✔Bodies of water surrounded by land
✔✔Karst - ✔✔An area underlain by limestone that is honeycombed with sinkholes,
underground streams and caves
✔✔River - ✔✔Ribbon of water flowing over the land
✔✔Source/Headwater - ✔✔Beginning source of river (melting glacier, snow melting
from mountain, overflowing lake, etc
✔✔Tributaries - ✔✔Streams that flow into rivers
✔✔Marsh - ✔✔A river may form a marsh as it nears the ocean
✔✔Delta - ✔✔A long, flat, low-lying plain at the river's mouth
✔✔Tidal Bore - ✔✔An abrupt front of high waters from the sea rushing up the mouth of
a river. (Amazon River, Bay of Fundy)
✔✔Cliamte - ✔✔Sum of weather over a period of time
✔✔Weather - ✔✔State of the environment in the moment
✔✔Heat Index - ✔✔Combination of the temperature and relative humidity that the
government uses to warn people of potential heat dangers
✔✔Climates are the product of - ✔✔latitude, elevation, topography and distance from
water
✔✔Tropical Wet - ✔✔Always hot and humid. Heavy precipitation
✔✔Tropical Wet and Dry - ✔✔Always hot with alternate wet and dry seasons
✔✔Semiarid - ✔✔Hot to cold. Light precipitation
✔✔Desert - ✔✔Hot to cool. Very little precipitation
, ✔✔Subtropical Dry Summer - ✔✔Hot dry summers, mild rainy winters
✔✔Humid Subtropicals - ✔✔Warm to hot summers and cool winters
✔✔Humid Oceanic - ✔✔Warm Summers and cool winters. Moderate precipitation
✔✔Humid Continental - ✔✔Mild summers, cold winters. Moderate precipitation
✔✔Subarctic - ✔✔Short, cool summers and long, cold winters
✔✔Tundra - ✔✔Always cold with brief, chilly summers. Little precipitation
✔✔Icecap - ✔✔Always cold, precipitation almost always snow
✔✔Mediterranean climate - ✔✔have warm, dry summers and mild, wet winters
✔✔Temperature - ✔✔The degrees of hotness or coldness measured by a thermometer
(Celcius, fahrenheit, centigrade). 64 is too cold for sitting around, 86 too hot for activity
✔✔Atmospheric Pressure - ✔✔The weight of the atmosphere as measured by a
barometer. Changes in pressure signal weather change.
✔✔Wind - ✔✔Air movement caused by an uneven heating of the earth by the sun
✔✔Humidity - ✔✔How much water vapor the air contains
✔✔Precipitation - ✔✔Rain, hail, snow, sleet when water and winds interact with the
temperature
✔✔Clouds - ✔✔Consist of tiny water droplets or ice crystals
✔✔Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn - ✔✔The highest and lowest points that
the sun can reached directly overhead
✔✔Trade Winds - ✔✔Winds from the northeast blowing towards the equator in the
northern hemisphere, southeast towards the equator in the southern hemisphere
✔✔Westerlies - ✔✔Currents of high air above the earth coming from the northeast
towards the equator in the northeast hemisphere and southwest towards the equator in
the southern hemisphere
✔✔Altitude - ✔✔Height in the atmosphere
