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Climate factors
Elevation
Elevation affects local climate as it increases temperatures become cooler. This has to do with air density or/and how close and how far air molecules are together. The higher the air molecules are the harder gravity takes to hold the air molecules together. For example, that is why the top of Mount Everest is freezing cold.
Elevation is a noun that tells how high something is raised above a surface or ground line. It's also a term for measuring things like temperatures or degrees. Your body temperature might have an elevation if you have the flu, just as the elevation of a hill increases as it gets steeper. Elevation affects climate. When elevation increases temperatures when they get colder. The lower elevations molecules are closer together.
Ocean currents
Ocean currents act much like a conveyor belt, transporting warm water and precipitation from the equator toward the poles and cold water from the poles back to the tropics. Thus, ocean currents regulate global climate, helping to counteract the uneven distribution of solar radiation reaching Earth's surface. It Helps cool down some regions of the planet by moving by a loop, and its cold water cooling down the planet.
Oceans make up about 70 percent of the Earth's surface. Within the oceans are massive flows of water called ocean currents. A lot of the ocean currents are cold and deep water currents. Not so warm currents begin in the polar regions and bring the cold water near the equator.
Bodies of water
For example, Lake Ontario, in the summer, absorbs the heat of the sun and keeps it in it's lake which can make the body of water have a temperature to be 30 degrees at most. But the heat takes long to cool down in the winter. And in the summer, the lake gets kind of cold because it has not cool down from the winter yet. That is why we have cooler summers and mild winters.
Big bodies of water and excellent for holding onto heat from the hot sun. The coldness in the winter takes up a big chunk of time to warm up and for the warm water to cool down. That is why in Toronto, they have mild winters and colder summers. This is great because it does not get so cold in the winters and it does not get that cool in the summer time.
Wind and air masses
Ocean currents today are getting very warm and they can get up to 30 degree Celsius. When you are moving with the spin of the Earth's object traveling toward the arc. This specific arc is mostly created by the Earth that is spinning very fast around the equator. It causes hurricanes to spin counter clockwise Directly in the Northern Hemisphere.
The zone around the equator is hot. As the air warms and starts to rise, cooler air begins to move underneath the warm air. Movements around the Earth's surface are called winds. For most of Canada, the winds are from the west and are named prevailing winds.
Latitude
Latitudes help in identifying and locating major heat zones of the earth. Latitude measures the distance between the north to south from the equator. Latitude helps in understanding the pattern of wind circulation on the global surface.
Imaginary lines that go around the earth but they never intersect. It's a Zero degree equator. Latitude measures the distance north or south of the equator. Latitude lines start at the equator and run east and west, parallel to the equator. Lines of latitude are measured in degrees north or south of the equator to 90 degrees at the North or South poles.
Mountain barries
Geographers use the term relief to describe the difference in height between the highest point and the lowest point. This makes it way shorter to say relief than to saying the highest point and the lowest point.
Mountain ranges also affect the climate of any region to a great extent. India is separated from rest of Asia by the impenetrable wall of Himalayas which has an average height of 6000m. These ranges protect India from bitterly cold and dry winds from the Siberian region during the winter.
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