Friday, January 26, 2024

Five Factors Affecting Climate Assignment

 

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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