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Climate Factors
Elevation
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Impact on climate: The higher you get the colder it gets, because of the molecules, that is why it is so cold on the top of Mount Everest.
Description: Elevations affects local climate, as it increases temperatures become cooler, this has to do with air density, or how close or how far apart air molecules are from each other, it is another way of saying how high a thing is raised above the ground. The higher the air molecules are the harder it is for gravity to hold them together which means the air is less dense which makes the temperature cooler.
Relief Precipitation :
Description: This term is used to describe the difference between the highest point of a place and the lowest point of a place. When wind blows up a mountain, air is moving to an area that has lower air pressure making the rising air expand and cool. When air cools its capacity holds, and moistures in the form of water vapor decreases. Water vapor is the gaseous form of water. As the air keep going up it will reach a point where it is at its maximum capacity to hold water vapor, if it keeps going up it will turn into clouds. When air is at its maximum capacity, further cooling will cause it to precipitate which means rain.
Impact on climate: On the windward side it is usually very rainy, on the other side it is usually dry, It creates rain and savannah temperature.
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Ocean Current
Description: Ocean current is massive flows of water, they are usually cold deep water, they are the densest bodies of water in the world. It sucks the cold temperature and the hot temperature, then they distribute the temperature.
Impact on climate: Effect on climate: It sucks the cold temperature and the hot temperature, then they distribute the temperature, so it acts like a temperature regulator.
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Bodies of Water
Description: Bodies of water are excellent at holding on to the heat from the sun. water takes a long time to cool down and to heat up, so a big lake or ocean acts like a temperature regulating system for the land nearby.
It creates mildly winter and cool summer, but it will affect you only if you live really, really close a large body of water.
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Latitude
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Impact on climate: The higher or lower the latitude is away from the equator the colder, this happens is because that the sunlight is more direct when you are at the equator.
Description: Imaginary horizontal lines that surround the Earth, doesn't intersecting at poles. With the 0 degrees line at the equator, It divides the earth into South and North hemisphere. The closer you are to the equator the director the sunlight.
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