Place Geography
This is 0 degrees latitude.
What is the Equator?
The Earth is tilted at this degree.
What is 23.5 degree?
This is the most important factor determining climate.
What is latitude?
This the effect of a location on a continent on the climate of a place?
What is continentality?
These water currents create wet conditions on the coast.
What is warm currents?
The tropic in the Northern Hemisphere.
What is the Tropic of Cancer?
The Summer Solstice in the Northern Hemisphere starts on this day.
What is June 21st?
This zone of latitude is a tropical climate.
What is low?
It gets colder as you go up this.
What is a mountain?
This level of air pressure generally means the area will be dry.
What is high air pressure?
The tropic in the Southern Hemisphere.
What is the Tropic of Capricorn?
The Fall Equinox in the Northern Hemisphere begins on this day.
What is September 22nd?
A level measurement of this on a climograph can reveal if the location is near the equator.
What is the temperature?
This side of the mountain is generally arid.
What is the leeward side?
The rotation of the Earth creates this wind effect.
What is the Coriolis Effect?
The Prime Meridian runs through this town in England.
What is Greenwich?
This measures time.
What is longitude?
Cold air comes from these regions.
What is polar?
This is responsible for the formation of the Great Basin.
What is the rain shadow effect?
When Polar Easterlies meet these prevailing winds there are storms.
What is Westerlies?
This continent has 23 countries.
What is North America?
On December 21st this pole is covered in total darkness for 24 hours.
What is the North Pole?
Madagascar receives its cold air from this continent.
What is Antarctica?
This is the formula for vertical climate.
What is the temperature decreases 3.5 degrees F for every 1,000' of elevation?
Cyclonic storms in the Northern Hemisphere spin in this direction.
What is counter-clockwise?