Climate Factors

What is weather over a long period of time?

• A tropical vacation
• Weather
• Climate
• Science

_____ climate is described as cold all year long and located in high latitudes.

• Polar
• Continental
• Dry
• Highland

As you go to the top of a mountain, what happens to temperature?

• Nothing
• It increases
• It decreases
• It goes up and down

If your latitude is close to 90 degrees North, you live in which zone?

• Polar Zone
• Temperate zone
• Tropical zone
• Equatorial zone

Which direction do warm currents flow FROM?

• North Pole
• North America
• South Pole
• Equator

Coastal regions affected by warm ocean currents have more rainfall T or F

• True 
• False

Which global winds have the greatest impact on the weather in the US?

• trade winds
• prevailing westerlies
• doldrums
• polar easterlies

Winds that blow from the west are called ____.

• Easterlies
• Polars
• Westerlies
• Temperates

Winds that blow from the east are called ____.

• Polars
• Westerlies 
• Easterlies
• Temperates

The sun’s rays are least direct __________.

• near the poles.      
• in July.
• near the equator.
• far from the ocean.