Factors Influencing Climate
Mindmap showing the factors that the climates are determined by.
- Created by: Caitlin Ward
- Created on: 13-06-13 18:05
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- Factors influencing Climate
- Sea and Land areas
- Day and night patterns
- Seasons
- Typically, the weather will be warm in the summer and cold in the winter.
- An example of a different season is the monsoon season where there is terential downpouring showers.
- Typically, the weather will be warm in the summer and cold in the winter.
- Latitude
- Greenhouse effect
- The build up of gases which cause the greenhouse effect, causes the weather to be generably warmer.
- This is why it is refered to global warming.
- The build up of gases which cause the greenhouse effect, causes the weather to be generably warmer.
- Concentration of the suns heat on the Earth
- Air streams
- Aspect
- Aspect is the sun's direction that is facing.
- For example, the suns rises in the east and sets in the west. South facing slopes will have more hours of sunshine a day than north facing slopes as the sun is at a different angle.
- Aspect is the sun's direction that is facing.
- Cloud cover
- Altitude
- Ocean currents
- World wind patterns
- The Earth's atmosphere
- Air pressure
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