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World Geography (Geobasics (Factors that affect Climate (Altitude (As the…

- - - - As the altitude gets higher, the humidity and temperature lower
    - - The closer to a large body of water, the less the temperature varies
    - - Areas near warm currents are typically warmer
    - - Closeness to the equator dictates a climates a temperature
    - - When wind blows warm air up a mountain, making the windward side humid and the leeward side dry
  - - - Map is rectangular, poles are distorted in size
    - - Ellipsical projection that distorts the shape of the poles
    - - Weird map shape, oceans are distorted
- - - - UNCLOS treaty
        
        Countries with territory on a coast exercise complete sovereignty up to 12 miles from shoreline.
        
        The “Contiguous Zone” is a band of water extending from the edge of territorial waters up to 24 miles from the coast.
        
        In this zone, states can exert limited control for the purpose of preventing or punishing “infringements of its customs, fiscal, immigration or sanitary laws and regulations within its territory.”
        
        A country can claim up to 200 miles of territory beyond its shoreline as an “exclusive economic zone”
        
        Outside of 200 miles is considered international waters.
        
        Median Line Principle: if there is less than 200 miles of ocean between countries, than the ocean will be divided down the middle
- - - - Latitude: the distance of a point from the equator
      - Longitude: the distance of a point from the Prime Meridean
- - - - Refugees: migrants forced out of their country
      - Asylum: the protection granted by a nation to someone who has left their native country as a political refugee.