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How does latitude affect climate around the polar zones?
Polar zones receive indirect sunlight resulting in a cooler climate.
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How does a large body of water affect the climate of the areas closest to them?
Warmer winters and cooler summers. Moderate climate.
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What type of system is associated with weather that has lots of clouds and lousy weather?
Low pressure
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List 3 factors that affect weather is a given area
Altitude(elevation)
Latitude
Body of water
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What is the difference between weather and climate?
Weather: the short term or day to day weather activities
Climate: long term or average weather activities
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How is a cold front represented on a weather map?
Blue line with triangles.
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How is high pressure represented on a weather map?
Blue H
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What causes deep ocean currents?
Warm water(equator) rising up and cold water(poles) sinking down.
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How is a warm front represented on a weather map?
Red line with half circles.
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How is wind created?
Warm air goes up and cold air sweeps into take its place.
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What type of system is associated with weather that is cold but sunny with almost no clouds in the sky?
High pressure
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What is an aquifer?
Water that is under the ground.
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What causes surface waves/currents?
Wind
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Why does the equator have a warmer climate?
It receives direct sunlight.
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What is true about locations that are at a low altitude?
Higher pressure and warmer temperatures
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What happens at the boundary of two air masses?
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How is hail formed?
Water is pushed back up to the freezing part of the thunderstorm cloud and then drops back down until it is to heavy for the updraft to push back up. Then falls as hail.
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When a warm air mass and a cold air mass meet what happens to the warm air?
The warm less dense air rises and the cold more dense air sinks.
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How is low pressure represented on a weather map?
Red L
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Explain the greenhouse effect.
Light from the sun is absorbed and turned into heat energy. That heat energy is then trapped within our atmosphere. Increased due to carbon dioxide (CO2).
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