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Geography 7
Weather and Climate
Read Ch. 2 section 1 and answer the following questions completely:
1. What is the difference between weather and climate?
2. Explain how the atmosphere is like a greenhouse.
3. What causes us to have different seasons?
4. Explain how the latitude location has an impact on climate.
5. How do winds and ocean currents help distribute the earth’s heat?
6. How is the water on the earth recycled?
7. Why does convectional precipitation happen in the tropics?
8. Explain how mountains impact precipitation.
9. Why do you suppose that frontal precipitation is most common?
10. How do large bodies of water affect weather and climate?
11. How does elevation impact climate?
12. Why are cities warmer than their surrounding area?
13. Climates are classified by which two factors?______________ ________________
Use the climate map on pages 66-67 and the chart on page 68 to answer questions 14-16.
14. Which climate region is Minnesota located in?____________________________
15. Which two climates are found in the northern hemisphere but not in the southern hemisphere?_________________ ______________________
16. Which climate has the most extreme range of average temperatures?_____________
17. What may be causing “global warming?”
18. What may be some affects of “global warming?”
Read “Using Climate Graphs” on page 70
19. On a climate graph, the line graph shows _________________ and the bar graph shows _________________.
20. According to the climate graphs on page 70, which city has a greater extreme of hot and cold temperatures?_________________
21. What is the rainiest month in Beijing?__________. About how many inches of rain fall during that month on average?_______________
22. Which two months have the highest average temperatures in Sao Paulo?_____________ ____________. What is the average temperature during those months?____________