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What effects climate - Coggle Diagram
What effects climate
Latitude
Description : Latitude is a unit of measurement that describes the distance from the equator the closer to the equator you get the more direct the sunlight the closer to the poles the less direct the sunlight gets.
Impact on climate : The closer to the equator you get the warmer you get. The closer to the poles the less direct the sunlight and the more severe the changes in temperature.
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Ocean currents
Description: Ocean currents are what bring warm water from the equator to the poles and then the water freezes, then the salt and cold water flows slowly to the equator making it so far that the journey can take up to a thousand years.
Impact on climate: The ocean currents are bringing warm water from the equator up to the poles keeping the temperatures away from the extremes. The poles then bring cool water to the equator cooling the tropical regions slightly.
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Elevation
Description: The higher up you go the less dense and the colder the surrounding air becomes this means that the higher you go the colder you get and the harder it gets to breath.
Impact on climate: This means the higher from sea level you get the colder and harder it gets to breath. This means that in places where it is high above sea level it is colder.
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relief precipitation
Description: Warm moist air comes from a lake or ocean and moves up the mountain cooling and loosing moister then it gets to the peek or near there it starts to rain because it cold water can't hold moister.
Impact on climate: This means that on the side were moister comes from there grows a jungle or rain forest and on the side where it does not get moist warm air it becomes a desert.
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Bodies of water
Description: Large bodies of water are really good at holding heat from the sun water takes a loooooooong time to warm up and a loooooooong time to cool down. So a big lake or lake or ocean will stay warm in winter and cool in summer.
Impact on climate: This means that summers are cooler near the lakes or oceans and warmer in winter. this causes areas near oceans to be less drastic in temperature changes. Less drastic changes means more average temperature.
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