Climate Flashcards
Boston and shrewbury are only about 40 miles apart and are on latitude , but why does shrewbury have colder weather in winter
Boston is on the coast which keep its warmer in winter
What cause some areas to be warmer the oceans to be warmer than other area?
Mountain ranges affect precipitation patterns. As warm moist air
Moves up a mountain , it gets colder,water vapor condenses and
Precipitation falls on the wind falls on the wind ward side of the mountain
Ocean winds in the tropical zone would bring this type of the of wind to a continent or island?
It would bring the wind to an island
Coastal and inland cities have different summer temperature.
How do they compare? Why does this happen.
Inland cities have warm weather because they have no ocean to cool them like costal cites
What is the Gulf Stream?
Which runs along the along the east coast across the Atlantic Ocean carries water from near the equator toward the poles
A region that has high temperature and the high precipation would have this kind of climate
Dry and hot climate
What climate zone is the equator in.
Tropical zone
What is the equator
It is the imagery line the divides the earth into two hemispheres,
It receives sunlight head on
What is the temperate zone
The temperate zone is a zone where the weather changes though rout the year
How Massachusetts connected to it
Massachusetts is in the temperate zone
What degrees latitude do we consider the tropical zones
0 degrees of latitude to 30 north and south
How does latitude effect climate
Because of insolation on temperature , latitude has the strongest on climate
What is latitude
Latitude are the lines that go side to side
Name two different types of climate that can be found in the temperate zone.
Cold and wet
Cold and dry
What two line is the tropical zone located
The Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn
