Latitude / Ocean Currents
The distance north or south of the equator.
What is latitude?
A city with a higher elevation will have this temperature.
What is colder?
The side of the mountain that gets more precipitation.
What is the windward side?
Describes current conditions of the atmosphere (e.g. heat, sunshine, wind).
What is weather?
The Gulf stream is this type of ocean current.
What is a warm current?
A location closer to the equator would be...
What is warmer?
A place near a large body of water has this type of climate.
What is a maritime climate?
The side of the mountain that gets less precipitation.
What is the leeward side?
Describes averaged weather conditions over a long period of time.
What is climate?
A cold air mass is replacing a warmer air mass.
What is a cold front?
A city with a warm ocean current nearby has this type of climate.
What is humid and warm?
Places near large bodies of water have less extreme temperatures between seasons.
What is the moderating effect?
This area of the Earth has low pressure.
What is the equator?
The boundary between the cold, dry polar air and warm, wet tropical air.
What is the Jet Stream?
A warm air mass is replacing a cold air mass.
What a warm front?
A city with a cold ocean current nearby has this type of climate.
What is cold and dry?
A place in-land near no large bodies of water has this type of climate.
What is continental climate?
These areas of the Earth have high pressure.
What are the North and South Pole (or Arctic and Antarctica)?
The altitude above which some snow remains on the ground in a particular place throughout the year.
What is the snow line?
The condensation of any atmospheric vapour that falls under gravity (e.g. rain, snow, sleet, hail).
What is precipitation?
The temperature of ocean currents affects this.
What is temperature and precipitation?
For every 100 m elevation, it gets this much colder.
What is 1 degree celsius?
Humid air on the windward slopes of a mountain moves up the mountains slopes and eventually cools to form these.
What are clouds?
Special weather condition created by the meeting of the cold Labrador Current and the warm Gulf Stream.
What is fog?
These four factors influence temperature.
What are latitude, nearness to water, ocean currents and elevation?