Climate Factors

Part 1: Multiple Choice

What climate zone receives the most direct sunlight all year long?

What climate zone experiences all four seasons most significantly?

What climate zone has the coldest temperatures on average all year long?

What climate zone receives the least amount of direct sunlight?

What climate zone receives the most amount of direct sunlight in the SUMMER?

Part 2: Identify the correct climate factor that is described in each question. 

The ocean heats up slower than land. When air heats above land, it rises and cooler air above the ocean moves onto the land, creating a cool sea breeze and keeping temperatures lower.

The equator receives direct sunlight and causes areas around the equator to be warm all year long. The poles receive less direct sunlight and cause these areas to be cooler all year long.

The higher you are above sea level, the less air molecules there will be. This results in cooler temperatures at high altitudes and warmer temperatures near sea level.

Mountains act as a barrier for moisture. When clouds move from the ocean towards the mountains, the air rises quickly and cools, resulting in precipitation. This causes more rain to fall on one side of the mountain and drier air to move to the other side of the mountain.

As the air at the equator is heated, it expands and moves towards the colder poles. Cold air at the poles moves towards the equator. This happens all year long due to unequal heating of the Earth’s surface.

Part 3: Use the Map to answer each question below. 

What climate factor is causing F to get more rain than G?

What area would you expect to be colder, B or C? Explain your reasoning.

What climate zone would area A fall into?

What area would have a colder climate, C or E? Explain your reasoning.

What area would be colder, C or G? Explain your reasoning.

What climate zone is area B in?

Identify one letter on the map that would be affected by a rain shadow.

Identify one letter on the map that would be affected by a elevation
.

What climate zone would most of New Jersey be considered?

What area on the map might experience a cool sea breeze?

Part 4: Identify each example as an example of weather or climate.
Remember, weather is the change of weather based on the current conditions of the atmosphere while climate is the average expectations of the weather based on data collected over 30 years. 

It is sunny ouside.

Winter is cold.

The breeze is causing temperatures to feel like -2 degrees Fahrenheit.

Today has a high temperature of 70 degrees Fahrenheit.

The months of July and August are expected to have the highest average temperatures in the state of New Jersey.

Part 6: Short Answer. Use complete sentences to answer the question below. Use the diagram to help you formulate your answer. 

Use the diagram below to explain how Earth is unequally heated and why that unequal heating causes the movement of air molecules in the atmosphere.

What climate zone receives the most direct sunlight all year long?

What climate zone experiences all four seasons most significantly?

What climate zone has the coldest temperatures on average all year long?

What climate zone receives the least amount of direct sunlight?

What climate zone receives the most amount of direct sunlight in the SUMMER?

The ocean heats up slower than land. When air heats above land, it rises and cooler air above the ocean moves onto the land, creating a cool sea breeze and keeping temperatures lower.

The equator receives direct sunlight and causes areas around the equator to be warm all year long. The poles receive less direct sunlight and cause these areas to be cooler all year long.

The higher you are above sea level, the less air molecules there will be. This results in cooler temperatures at high altitudes and warmer temperatures near sea level.

Mountains act as a barrier for moisture. When clouds move from the ocean towards the mountains, the air rises quickly and cools, resulting in precipitation. This causes more rain to fall on one side of the mountain and drier air to move to the other side of the mountain.

As the air at the equator is heated, it expands and moves towards the colder poles. Cold air at the poles moves towards the equator. This happens all year long due to unequal heating of the Earth’s surface.

What climate factor is causing F to get more rain than G?

What area would you expect to be colder, B or C? Explain your reasoning.

What climate zone would area A fall into?

What area would have a colder climate, C or E? Explain your reasoning.

What area would be colder, C or G? Explain your reasoning.

What climate zone is area B in?

Identify one letter on the map that would be affected by a rain shadow.

Identify one letter on the map that would be affected by a elevation.

What climate zone would most of New Jersey be considered?

What area on the map might experience a cool sea breeze?

It is sunny ouside.

Winter is cold.

The breeze is causing temperatures to feel like -2 degrees Fahrenheit.

Today has a high temperature of 70 degrees Fahrenheit.

The months of July and August are expected to have the highest average temperatures in the state of New Jersey.

Use the diagram below to explain how Earth is unequally heated and why that unequal heating causes the movement of air molecules in the atmosphere.

Identify one letter on the map that would be affected by a elevation
.