Use the video to answer the following questions.
1) What is the difference between weather and climate?
2) What is latitude?
3) Why are places near the Equator warmer in temperature than places far from the Equator?
4) Why are places at high altitudes of a cooler temperature than those of a low altitude?
5) What is topography?
6) Using a dictionary, define "rain shadow".
7) Why do the Philippines have a moderate climate?
8) What are the five factors that affect climate?
1) How do wind and ocean currents
affect temperature?
- Wind currents distribute the sun’s heat
throughout the Earth.
2) What is the cause of the
Coriolis Effect?
- The cause of the Coriolis Effect, a
bending of winds in different directions in northern and southern hemispheres,
is the rotation of Earth.
3) In addition to affecting
temperature, what other feature of climate is affected by ocean currents?
- Ocean currents can affect
precipitation. These currents can chill
the air and prevent the moisture in warm air from falling to Earth.
4) List the three main climate
zones on Earth and their MAIN characteristic in the following way: name of
climate zone: main characteristic
- low/ tropical: hot all year long; high/
polar: cold all year long; middle/ temperate: varying climates – four distinct
seasons
5) How is it possible for a
mountainous region in the tropical climate zone to have temperatures similar to
a high or polar zone?
- A mountainous region in the tropics can
have a polar type of climate due to its high elevation. Elevation rises,
temperature decreases.
6) Use your electronic device or
laptop to define the term "rain shadow".
- A rain shadow is a patch of land that
has been forced to become a desert because mountain ranges blocked all
plant-growing, rainy weather. On one side of the mountain, wet weather systems
drop rain and snow.
7) Of the four factors
(categories) that affect climate, which category does a "rain shadow"
fall into?
- Because a rain shadow is caused by a mountain range, it is in the category of
a landform’s affect on climate.
grid - a network of lines that cross each other to form a series of
squares or rectangles.
2) What are the names given to the
lines that form the imaginary grid used to identify exact and approximate
locations on earth?
3) What is another term used for
lines of latitude?
4) In which direction do lines of
latitude go?
5) What are the number of degrees for
the Equator?
5a) What subdivisions of Earth are created by the Equator?
6) What are the number of degrees for
the Tropic of Cancer?
6a) Why is the Tropic of Cancer (23.5N) labeled with the letter N?
7) What are the number of degrees for
the Tropic of Capricorn?
7a) Why is the Tropic of Capricorn (23.5S) labeled with the letter S?
8) What is the name of the climate
region that lies in between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn?
9) What are the number of degrees for
the Arctic Circle?
9a) Why is the Arctic Circle (66.5N) labeled with the letter N?
10) What are the number of degrees
for the Antarctic Circle?
10a) Why is the Antarctic Circle (66.5S) labeled with the letter S?
11) Describe the type of climate that
lies in between the Tropics and the Antarctic/ Arctic circles.
12) What is the term given to the
type of climate that lies north of the Arctic Circle and south of the Antarctic
Circle?
- A polar climate consisting of cool summers and very cold winters,
which results in treeless tundra, glaciers, or a permanent or semi-permanent
layer of ice.
13) What is another name for lines of
longitude?
14) How is the spacing between lines
of longitude different from lines of latitude?
14a) Where do lines of longitude meet?
15) What subdivisions of Earth are
created by the Prime Meridian (0⁰ Longitude)?
