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.
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