CK12 Earth Science

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Chapter 17 Climate 17.1 Climate and Its Causes. Lesson Objectives Describe the effect of latitude on the solar radiation a loca ...

What is Climate? Weather is what is happening in the atmosphere at a particular location at the moment. Climate is the average o ...

Thisanimationshowstheaveragesurfacetemperatureacrosstheplanetasitchangesthrough the year MonthlyMeanTemperatures(http://upload.w ...

drier. Low pressure zones often have climates that are warm and rainy. Figure 17.2: The atmospheric circulation cells and their ...

Figure 17.3: The ITCZ can be easily seen where thunderstorms are lined up north of the equator. ( 8 ) Figure 17.4: Seasonal diff ...

for so long that they would run out of water and food for their livestock. Sailors would toss horses and other animals over the ...

Table 17.1: Average Temperature Location City July: high (oC/oF) January: low (oC/oF) West Coast San Francisco, CA 19/66 8/46 Ce ...

Figure 17.5: The Gulf Stream can be identified in this image of the Atlantic Ocean off of the eastern United States and Canada. ...

Altitude and Mountain Ranges All else being equal, air temperature decreases at higher altitudes. A town at 3000 meters in the m ...

Figure 17.6: The Bonneville Salt Flats are part of the very dry Great Basin. They receive so littlerainfallbecausetheyareonthele ...

Vocabulary climate Weather averaged over a long period of time, usually about 30 years. continental climate A location in which ...

Introduction A climate zone results from the climate conditions of an area: its temperature, humidity, amount and type of precip ...

Figure 17.7: This world map of the Köppen classification system gives a good general idea of where the climate zones and major b ...

amounts of rain fall year-round, between 175 and 250 cm (65 and 100 inches) per year. These conditions support thetropical rainf ...

wet. In the winter, when the ITCZ moves back toward the equator, the region is dry. This climate exists where strong monsoon win ...

Figure 17.11: The Sahara desert takes up much of northern Africa. The green band below the sandy Sahara is the Congo. ( 10 ) sun ...