Factors that Affect Climate

What is weather over a long period of time?

• A tropical vacation
• Weather
• Climate
• Science

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

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

The sun’s rays are least direct __________.

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

Large bodies of water affect climate of the land next to them because

• water heats up and cools more slowly than land
• water heats up and cools faster than land
• water and land cool at the same time
• water and land heat at the same rate

Ocean currents circulate the sun's heat.

• True 
• False

Two factors to determine climate are

• precipitation and temperature
• hurricanes and tornadoes
• humidity and pressure

Which of the following will heat the fastest? 

• water
• land
• both heat at equal rates

The _______ of  a mountain range is the side that receives a lot of precipitation.

• dry side
• leeward/dry side
• windward/wet side
• cloudy side

What makes global winds curve rather than move in straight lines?

• the spinning of Earth
• changes in air pressure
• changes in temperature
• differences in latitudes

Distance north or south of the Equator is called _______.

• latitude
• elevation
• topography
• wind pattern