Factors Influencing Weather and Climate

Climate is

• the further you get from the equator
• the higher you go, the colder it gets
• the conditions of the atmosphere at a certain place and time.
• the average weather conditions of an area over a long period of time.

What two factors are primarily used to describe climate?

• temperature and density
• temperature and precipitation
• precipitation and density
• winds and humidity

If you live near the ocean, in a marine climate, what kind of winters would you expect?

• Harsh, extreme winters
• Mild winters
• No winters at the beach.
• Really warm winters

As you go to the top of a mountain, what happens to temperature?

• Nothing
• It increases
• It decreases
• It goes up and down

Earth’s climate system is powered mainly by energy from:

• Tilt
• Solar Activity
• Latitude
• Precession

The farther you live from an ocean, the more likely your climate will be a 

• marine climate
• continental climate
• tropical climate
• subtropical climate

What region receives the least amount of solar radiation?

• Polar Region
• Temperate Region
• Equatorial Region
• Tropical Region

Places located at high latitude receives less sunlight than places at low latitude.

• True 
• False

Temperate continental climates have cold winters.

• True
• False

The land on the ______ side of the mountain range is in the rain shadow.

• Cold
• windward
• Cloud covered
• leeward