Factors that affect Weather and Climate

What is climate?

• Climate is the average weather conditions experienced in a location.

• Climate is the weather in a place.

• Climate is the weather in a place.

What is the most common factor to affect 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 temperatures 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 climate change.

Where will the temperature be highest?

• At the Arctic circle.

• At the Tropic of Cancer.

• At the Equator.

How does prevailing wind affect climate?

• Prevailing wind shows the main direction that wind comes from and can bring mild, wet weather if it blows over warm oceans.

• Prevailing wind is the amount of moisture that can be found in an area.

• Prevailing wind describes the speed of the wind in a particular place.

How does altitude 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.

What is the usual rate that temperature will change in the lower atmosphere?

• 1 degree is lost for every 100m.

• 1 degree is gained for every 500m.

• 1 degree is lost for every 1m.

In the summer – how does distance from the sea affect the climate?

• Warm breezes will bring warm air to the coast whilst inland will be cooler.

• Cool breezes will bring cooler air to the coast whilst inland will be warmer.

• Cool breezes will cool both the coast and further inland.

In the winter – how does distance from the sea affect the climate?

• Warm breezes will bring warm air to the coast whilst inland will be cooler.

• Cool breezes will bring cooler air to the coast whilst inland will be warmer.

• Cool breezes will cool both the coast and further inland.