Distance from the sea Flashcards
What is temperature range?
Distance from the sea affects the temperature range at a place.
The temperature range is the difference between the highest and lowest temperatures.
Which places have a smaller temperature range?
Places near the coast have a smaller temperature range than places further from the sea.
What season do the continents he up much faster than the ocean?
In summer, the continents heat up much faster than the ocean. Cool winds from the ocean blow onto the coastal regions, cooling them down.
Do places further inland benefit from cooling winds.
Places further inland do not benefit from these cooling winds and so places in the interior of continents are much hotter than places along the coast.
In winter what cools more slowly
In winter, the sea cools more slowly than the land. Warm winds blow onshore, warming the coastal regions, but not places far from the sea.
Effect on rainfall
In some cases, places near the sea are wetter than places further from it.
Warm, moist winds blowing from the sea to the land bring rain to coastal areas. By the time they reach further inland, they have often lost all their moisture and are dry. In these cases, places further from the sea will not have as much rain as places along the coast.
However, rain can also form far inland for other reasons, so the distance from the sea does not always affect the amount of rain receives.
Height above sea level
Sea levels 0 m.
Places on the coast, like Durban, are usually not many meters above sea level, while high mountains can be thousands of metres above sea level.
Height above sea level is measured in meters.
Effect of temperature
Places that are high above sea level are colder than places at sea level.
Height above sea level is also called altitude.
So we can say temperature decreases with altitude.
Effect on rainfall
A place’s altitude does not affect its rainfall.
Some places at low altitude get plenty of rain, while others get hardly any rain. And the same is true for places at high altitudes.
