CLIMATE

What is climate?

• What's happening in space at a time and place.
• What's happening in our atmosphere at a time and place
• The average weather over many years
• The average temperature over many years.

Which of the following does NOT have an affect on a region's climate?

• Large bodies of water
• Latitude
• Mountains
• Longitude

What are the two main factors that determine the climate of an area?

• precipitation and humidity
• temperature and air pressure
• wind conditions and humidity
• temperature and precipitation

Which BEST describes why latitudes closest to the equator have warmer climates?

• they are at lower elevations
• they receive more solar energy
• they are nearer to ocean currents
• they get more winds that carry energy in the form of heat

Which sentence best describes how latitude and temperature are related?

• LOWER latitude = COLDER air temperature
• HIGHER latitude = COLDER air temperature
• HIGHER latitude = WARMER temperatures
• LOWER latitude = COLDER air temperature

"When the altitude increases; the temperature decreases" is an example of what?

• Influence of ocean currents
• Influence of proximity to water
• Influence of wind
• Influence of elevation

Large bodies of water affecting the temperature of  region in an example of which climatic element?

• Influence of elevation
• Proximity to water
• Influence of ocean currents
• Influence of latitudes

Warm and humid winds that blow from east to west at or near the Earth's Equator.

• Polar Easterlies

• Westerlies

• Trade Winds

A hot and humid zone near the equator with heavy precipitation.

• Tropical Zone

• Temperate Zone

• Continental Zone

• Polar Zone

How do mountains affect climate?

• One side can be wet and the other dry due to different air pressures with altitude.

• As air rises up a mountain, water condenses and precipitation occurs on one side of the mountain.

• The clouds that produce rain can evaporate, causing one side to be dry and the other to be wet.

• All of the above are possible.