Climate
Climate Factors 1
Climate Factors 2
Climate Factors 3
Climate Zones
Miscellaneous
100
The pattern of weather that occurs in an area over many years.
What is climate?
100
If you live on the windward side of a mountain, your climate would be described as...
What is cool and wet?
100
The cause of latitude-specific climate zones.
What is the uneven heating of Earth's surface due to axis tilt?
100
Windward side: ___________________
cool, moist
100
Higher elevations often experience _________ temperatures,
cooler
100
in which direction do the easterlies blow
east to west
200
Latitude
Latitude refers to the angular distance of a location north or south of the equator.
200
This is the reason that San Diego has little temperature variation throughout the year
What is It is near a large body of water which has a high specific heat
200
the way Earth’s rotation makes moving air and water turn or curve instead of going straight.
Coriolis Effect
200
Leeward side: _________________
warm, dry
200
large-scale movements of water within the ocean.
ocean currents
200
The way the density of air molecules changes as you go up in altitude.
What is the air molecules become less packed together (less dense).
300
As latitude increases, the average annual temperature
decreases
300
large-scale wind patterns that result from the uneven heating of Earth's surface by the sun.
Planetary wind belts
300
In our latitude belt, winds and storms track from
west to east.
300
Elevation
refers to the height of a location above sea level
300
The climate region that is represented by the red graph is.. temperate or tropical
Temperate Region
300
The latitude line found at 23.5 degrees north.
What is the Tropic of Cancer
400
High latitudes climate
Cooler due to the low angle of sun – the rays are more spread out.
Drier because cooler air does not hold as much water.
400
The global factor that is most important in determining climate.
What is latitude
400
The leeward side, of a mountain is known as the
rain shadow region,
400
As elevation increases, the temperature generally decreases due to a decrease in air pressure.
generally decreases due to a decrease in air pressure.
400
warm ocean currents Move heat from the
equator toward the poles
400
what causes global winds
Uneven heating of the Earth's surface by the sun. This causes pressure differences/convection currents
500
Low latitudes = Equator
Hotter due to direct sunlight – more intense heat.
More humid due to rising air, which creates clouds.
500
There are three primary wind belts:
the trade winds
the westerlies
the polar easterlies.
500
The leeward side, also known as the rain shadow region, experiences _________conditions
drier
500
Compared to the climate of location A, location B would be?
What is warmer and less humid
500
Inland - not near water has a ________________ of temperatures.
wide range
500
what is climate of Florida and why
small variation in temperature, no seasons, high humidity, tropical, near large bodies of water, near the equator.