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How does Climate Change?. By: Mr. Leslie’s Class. Climates of the World. Climate – is the average weather conditions in an over a long period of time. The climate of an area determines the kinds of plants and animals that can live there. Tropical Climate. Tropical Climate is hot and rainy. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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How does Climate Change?
By: Mr. Leslie’s Class
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Climates of the World
• Climate – is the average weather conditions in an over a long period of time. – The climate of an area determines the kinds
of plants and animals that can live there.
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Tropical Climate
• Tropical Climate is hot and rainy.– It receives strong sunlight all year long.– It is located directly north and south of the
equator.
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Temperate Climate
• Temperate Climate usually has warm, dry summers and cold, wet winters.– The United States is a temperate climate
zone.
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Polar Climate• Polar climate has very cold temperatures all
through the year.– Most places in polar climate zones have snow on the
ground all year long
– What causes polar climate to be so cold?• The poles receive the least amount of sunlight on earth.
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Why is weather different?• The amount of sunlight an area receives has a
large effect on its climate.
• How much sunlight an area receives depends on its latitude (or its distance north or south of the equator)
• High latitudes are farther from the equator. This allows less sunlight and colder temperatures. Oceans and lakes also make temperatures colder because it brings in wet weather.
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Things that affect weather…• Water currents
– El Niño– Wet and mild
• Oceans– Wet weather
• Latitudes– Less sunlight
• Altitude– The Rocky Mountains– Height above sea level
• Mountains– Blocking air masses
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Take a guess?
• Maine is at a high latitude. It has ________ and ________ weather.
• Florida is at a low latitude. It has _______ and _______ weather.
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Do climates ever change?
• Climates do not stay the same forever.• Much of North America was covered by
ice 20,000 years ago.• Woolly Mammoths and saber-toothed
tigers roamed the Great Plains.