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CLIMATE:
1: An area's climate depends on
______________ and ________________ .
2: What are some features on earth which can greatly affect climate?
3:
Why is your location on the earth an extremely important factor in determining the type of weather you will face?
4:
Which parts of the earth get the most sun and which areas get the least?
5: What is precipitation dependent on?
6:
Where would you find very little rain?
7: Why does it snow and rain a lot in the mountains?
8: Why is there
often a desert on one side of a mountain range?
9: What is the difference between climate and weather?
CORIOLIS EFFECT:
1: How are air masses and
soup being warmed up on a stove similar? (See soup exhibit under "Atmosphere.")
2: What exactly is the Coriolis Effect?
3: What does the word, "Coercer" mean to you in the fourth line of the poem?
4: Why does the Coriolis Effect
deflect winds west to east in the northern hemisphere and east to west in the southern hemisphere?
5: If you fly from
San Francisco to New York, why is your flight one hour faster going west to east (San Francisco to New York) than flying back
from east to west?
6: Do pilots take into account the earth's rotation when deciding what direction to fly? Why or
why not?
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