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EARTH SYSTEMS Chapter 25.1 Earth Systems Factors Affecting Climate Chart
Directions: Sketch and label the Factors Affecting Climate Chart .
Earth System Standard:
SES5. Students will investigate the interaction of insolation and Earth systems to produce weather
and climate.
a. Explain how latitudinal variations in solar heating create atmospheric and ocean
currents that redistribute heat globally.
d. Describe how temperature and precipitation produce the pattern of climate regions
(classes) on Earth.
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Placed chart in notebook behind the
Chapter 25 Word Study. (Friday, April 22)
Climate meanings and notes were accurate with no
abbreviations.
Factors chart was accurately copied with no abbreviations.
Factors were accurate, shaded, complete, neatly drawn and written,
and large enough to be easily read.
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MAJOR TWO FACTORS AFFECTING CLIMATE:
Temperature and Pecipitation
OTHER FACTORS AFFECTING CLIMATE
LATITUDE
1.) Solar Energy:
 the higher the latitude, the smaller the angle at which the sun's rays hit Earth and the
smaller the amount of solar energy the area receives
 because Earth's axis is tilted, the angle at whch the sun's rays hit an area changes as Earth
orbits the sun
2.) Global Wind Patterns
 because Earth receives different amounts of solar energy at different latitudes, belts of cool,
dense air form at latitudes near the poles, while belts of warm, less dense air form near the
equator
 the doldrums are an equatorial belt of low pressure where the air rises and cools and water
vapor condenses
 as seasons change, global wind belts shift in a north or south direction causing precipitation
also to shift
HEAT ABSORPTION AND RELEASE
 Latitude and cloud cover affect the amount of solar energy that an area receives
 land heats faster than water
 waves, currents and other movements continuously replace warm surface water with cooler
water from the ocean depths
1.) Specific Heat and Evaporation
2.) Ocean Currents
3.) El Nino - Southern Oscillation or ENSO - warm water phase
La Nina - cool water phase
4.) Seasonal Winds
TOPOGRAPHY
1.) elevation
2.) rain shadows