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Climate Factors - Coggle Diagram
Climate Factors
Latitude
Area's in higher latitude, the energy from the sun is spread out more. Places with lower latitude tend to have warmer temperature than those in higher latitudes
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Latitude is an imaginary line running horizontally along the earth, they never intersect the latitude line in the middle of the earth is called the equator its where the sun rays concentrates the most, where on the poles the sun rays are more reflective and bounce easily, which is why it is day in the north pole for 6 months then night for 6 months.
Ocean Currents
Ocean currents are massive flows of water. 90% of the Ocean currents are cold currents. The rest are warm currents. The cold currents begin in the poles and slowly comes to the equator. The warm currents are opposite they start in the tropical climates and move towards the cooler climate regions.
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Wind and Air masses
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Air masses are large bodies of air that are similar temperature, winds carry air masses which results in bringing warm and wet weather. They're are warm and cold winds. Cold winds come from the poles and warm winds come from the equator. When warm and cold airs meet cold airs goes below since cold air is more dense while warm airs are less dense. So warm air can only go up, but the higher u go the colder it gets. And then the warm air turns to air
Elevation
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That means some climate regions are higher up which makes the elevation higher which makes the temperature colder.
The higher the elevation is the colder the temperature is. That's because of air density or how far apart air molecules are from each other. The higher you are the less air density, that's because of gravity, gravity holds the air molecules together, but the higher elevation less gravity will hold the air molecules together which means less sunlight getting trapped by the air molecules which make it colder.
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Bodies of water
Large lakes and oceans are very good at absorbing and holding heat energy. This means all summer the oceans and lakes are absorbing and holding heat.
It takes a very looooooooooooong time for the lake to heat up or cool down. So all summer the lake is releasing the cold from the winter and all winter the lake is releasing the heat from the summer.
It's mild regulated temperatures all year. Winter is a little warmer, summer is a little cooler.
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