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    Thomas FOster

    Guiding Questions:
    Climate Notes
    Section 14.1 What is Climate?
    1.Define climatology.
    The study of Earths climate and the
    factors that affect it or have affected it.
    2.What factors does climate include in
    addition to average weather conditions?
    Climate describes the long-term weather
    patterns
    3.Give two examples of how climatic data
    can be used.
    It can be used to indicate the warmest
    and coldest temperatures. Also can be
    used by companies to decide where to
    locate new facilities.
    4.Why must we exercise caution when using
    normals to predict weather?
    weather conditions on any given day
    could vary from the normal greatly.
    5.What factors cause climate?
    Latitude, topography, moisture available,
    oceans and lakes nearby, wind currents,
    ocean currents, and more.
    6.Why are coastal areas cooler in the
    summer than inland areas? Because they

    are nearby water which heats up and


    cools down slower than the land.
    7.Describe the relationship between
    temperature and altitude. Temperature
    generally decreases with altitude.
    8.Figure 14-3 depicts what effect of
    orographic lifting that we discussed last
    Friday? (HINT: return to those notes!)
    Convection currents.
    Section 14.2 Climate Classification
    1.Name the system used to classify climates.
    What factors does it consider? Koeppen
    classification system. It uses temperature
    and precipitation.
    2.List the six main climate types. Tropical,
    dry, mild, continental, polar, and high
    elevations.
    3.What climate type do we live in? List its
    characteristics. We live in what would be
    closest to a mild climate, with warm muggy
    summers but cool winters.
    4.What is a microclimate? Give an example.
    A localized climate that differs from the
    main regional climate. Example is the
    microclimate created from all the buildings
    in a city when it is cold outside of that.
    5.What is the heat island effect and where
    does it occur?

    Where buildings and concrete create a


    warmer climate then the surrounding area.
    It occurs in cities and rural areas.

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