Weather and Climate

What is climate?

• A description of the pattern of weather over many years

• The amount of rain a certain place gets

• The weather on a certain day of the year

• The size of a hurricane

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What are the 2 major factors that affect a region's climate?

• Temperature and humidity

• Precipitation and temperature

• Temperature and precipitation

• Latitude and altitude

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What 3 facors determine geographic location?

What do ocean currents do?

• Change the amount of people in a certain location of the world

• Influence the temperature of the regions through which they travel

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What are atmospheric currents?

• The large-scale movement of air and together with ocean circulation is the means by which thermal energy is redistributed on the surface of the Earth

• The state of the atmosphere with respect to wind, temperature, cloudiness, moisture, pressure, etc.

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What are global winds?

• The weather conditions prevailing in an area in general or over a long period

• A storm with a violent wind, in particular a tropical cyclone in the Caribbean

• Really large air masses that are created mainly as a result of the earth’s rotation

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What are the global wind patterns?

• North winds, South, and East

• Trade winds, polar easterlies and westerlies

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What is the Coriolis effect?

• The way Earth’s rotation makes

  winds curve

• The direction a compass points towards

• The tilt of Earth's axis

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What is weather?

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What factors affect weather? (Mark all that apply)

• Air pressure

• Precipitation

• Humidity

• Temperature

• Wind

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