What is a climate?
The pattern of seasonal weather conditions year after year.
What determines climate? Name three things.
Latitude, global winds, ocean currents, distance from water.
What causes global winds?
Temperature differences between latitudes.
How do currents create patterns in the ocean?
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How does distance from water affect the climate?
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What is altitude? How does it affect temperature?
How high above sea level; the higher the colder.
How can a mountain “dry out” the air?
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What does latitude measure?
How far something is from the equator.
What is the latitude of the equator? How about the poles?
0 degrees, 90 degrees.
Describe the climate of where you live.
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