13. AIR PRESSURE
-is the force exerted onto a surface by the
weight of the air.
-it is caused by the weight of all air in the
atmosphere pressing down to earth.
- The unequal heating of earth’s surface.
14. HOW DOES THE AIR PRESSURE AFFECTS THE
CLIMATE?
• Air pressure in the weather system reflects the amount of water in
the air, which affects the weather.
•LOW air pressure usually results in BAD weather: Stormy,
cloudy overcast.
•HIGH air pressure tends to result in GOOD weather: CLEAR
skies, no precipitation.
15. HOW DOES THE AIR PRESSURE AFFECTS THE
CLIMATE?
• Low pressure is warm, moist air. It raises and forms
clouds.
• High pressure is cold, dry air. It sinks and creates clear
skies.
19. OROGRAPHIC EFFECT
• Wind containing the moisture hits the windward side of a
mountain. The moisture full of clouds to make it over the
mountain so precipitation occurs.
• After the rain the clouds have no moisture and are able to rise
over the mountain. The side away from the mountain is the
leeward side. The leeward side of the mountain arid, it’s in the
rainshadowand is usually a desert.
23. EFFECTS OF ELEVATION TO CLIMATE
• As elevation increases, temperature decreases.
• As well as, as the elevation decreases, the temperature increase.
25. CONTINENTAL
LOCATION
- The position of a location on a
continent relative to the ocean
determine whether it is a marine or
continental climate.
26. CONTINENTAL LOCATION
• Large bodies of water are slower to heat and cool than land.
• As a result, water temperatures remains stable and land
temperature changes frequently.
• Coastlines have stable temperatures.
• Interior of the continent has extreme temperatures (hotter and
colder).
28. OCEAN CURRENTS
- Ocean currents are giant rivers
of sea water flowing withing the
oceans.
29. OCEAN CURRENTS
• Ocean currents flow in circular path:
1. Warm currents carry water from low to high altitudes. These
make land nearby warmer.
2. Cool currents carry water from high to low altitudes. These make
land nearby cooler.
31. WIND BELTS
- Wind is the movement of the
air from high pressure to low
pressure.
32. TYPES OF WIND BELTS
• Trade Winds
a wind blowing steadily toward the equator from the northeast in
the northern hemisphere or the southeast in the southern
hemisphere, especially at sea. Two belts of trade winds encircle the
earth, blowing from the tropical high-pressure belts to the low-
pressure zone at the equator.
33. TYPES OF WIND BELTS
• Westerlies
a wind blowing from the west.
the belt of prevailing westerly winds in the mid-latitudes
of the northern and southern hemispheres.
34. TYPES OF WIND BELTS
• Polar Easterlies/Winds
are the dry, cold prevailing winds that blow from the high-
pressure areas of the polar highs at the North and South Poles
towards low-pressure areas within the Westerlies at high
latitudes.