FACTORS AFFECTING CLIMATE

What is climate?

• Climate is an average condition experienced in a location

• Climate is the weather in a place

• Climate is a long range weather forecast for a country or city.

What is the most common factor to affect the climate?

• Latitude

• Prevailing Wind

• Rainfall

How does latitude affect the climate of a place?

• temperature drops the higher up into the atmosphere that you go.

• Temperature drops the further an area is from the equator

• Temperature drops at night when the sun goes to bed.

What is the main reason why latitude causes temperature to be different?

• it’s to do with the curve of the earth and distance from the equator

• it’s to do with the distance from the moon

• It’s got to do with the climate change

Where will the temperature be highest?

• at the arctic circle

• at the trophic of cancer

• at the equator

How does altitude/elevation affect temperature?

• The higher up a place is the colder the temperature will be.

• The higher up a place is the warmer the temperature will be.

• The temperature remains the same throughout the atmosphere.

It a is warm, moist air. It raises and forms clouds.

• Low pressure

• High pressure

• Cyclone

It is cold, dry air. It sinks and creates clear skies.

• Low pressure

• High pressure

• Cyclone

Orographic effect is caused by?

• latitude

• mountain barriers

• elevation

these are giant rivers of sea water flowing within oceans.

• Ocean currents

• Continental Location

• Wind belts