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Latitude
1. What is the day length of Atlanta in Dec. and June?
Why is there a difference in day length?
2. What is the relationship between the cities’ Latitude and Day Length in December?
As Latitude ___________________ December Day Length ____________________
3. Describe the Temperature change and Change in Day Length for the following cities?
Toronto -
Panama City -
4. Which city has more solar intensity, Toronto or Panama City?
Why?
 Land vs Water
5. Because _____________________ heats and cools faster and more intensely than water,
6. Continental locations have a ________________________ range than maritime locations.
7. Maritime locations often have ______________ precipitation because of their proximity to a large moisture source.
8. Which location has a greater temperature range (Reykajvik or Yakutsk)?
Why?
Geographic Position
9. Proximity to a large body of water isn't enough. Prevailing winds determine the influence that body has on local climate. All three stations on the map to the right are at approximately the same latitude. Two stations are coastal, but only one, San Francisco, has a maritime climate. Why?
 Mountains and Seasonal Temperatures
10. Temperature generally _____________________ with altitude.
11. Why is Denver’s Seasonal Temperatures higher than Evergreen?
 Climographs | North America
12. How do temperature and precipitation patterns vary as one moves from New Orleans north to the interior of Canada?
Climographs | North American West Coast
13. How does the seasonality and amount of precipitation vary from south to north along this west coast transect?
 Climographs | Africa
14. Compare the Temperature pattern of Tunis, Tunisia and Johannesburg, South Africa.
15. What factors cause these differences in climate.
16. Compare the precipitation pattern of Kisangani, Zaire and Cairo, Egypt.
17. What factors cause these differences in climate.
18. . Look at the climograph at Tambouctou, Mali. Describe the climate.
19. Which climate control is responsible for creating the conditions at Tambouctou, Mali?
(High air pressure, mountains, ocean currents)
Why?
 Climographs | World
Look at a Climograph of a city in Australia and the United States.
20. Name the cities and their Hemisphere (N or S) Describe the temperature pattern of each city.
USA ____________________________
Australia ________________________
21. What is the difference between the temperature patterns in the USA and Australia?
22. What causes this difference in temperature patterns?
23. Name a city with very little temperature change. ______________________
24. Explain what causes the temperature to remain constant.
Find the Climographs of Lima, Peru and Manaus, Brazil.
25. Which city has less yearly precipitation? ________________
26.Why does this city have less precipitation?
Look at the climograph of Winnipeg,Manitoba, Canada and Seattle, Washington.
27. Which city has less yearly temperature fluctuations? _________________________________
28. During winter, Winnipeg’s home heating costs are double those of Seattle. What climate control factor is most responsible for the difference in home heating costs between these two cities? (latitude, continent/maritime, high pressure)
Explain your answer.
Locate the climograph of Miami Florida.
29. Which of the following moderates Miami’s temperature. (warm ocean current, continental air mass, latitude)
Explain
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