Guiding Questions: Climate Notes

Section 14.1 What is Climate?

1.Define climatology.
2.What factors does climate include in
addition to average weather conditions?
3.Give two examples of how climatic data
can be used.
4.Why must we exercise caution when using
normals to predict weather?
5.What factors cause climate?
6.Why are coastal areas cooler in the
summer than inland areas?
7.Describe the relationship between
temperature and altitude.
8.Figure 14-3 depicts what effect of
orographic lifting that we discussed last
Friday? (HINT: return to those notes!)
Section 14.2 Climate Classification
1.Name the system used to classify climates.
What factors does it consider?
2.List the six main climate types.
3.What climate type do we live in? List its
characteristics.
4.What is a microclimate? Give an example.
5.What is the heat island effect and where
does it occur?

Guiding Questions: Climate Notes

Section 14.1 What is Climate?
1. Define climatology.
2. What factors does climate include in
addition to average weather conditions?
3. Give two examples of how climatic data
can be used.
4. Why must we exercise caution when
using normals to predict weather?
5. What factors cause climate?
6. Why are coastal areas cooler in the
summer than inland areas?
7. Describe the relationship between
temperature and altitude.
8. Figure 14-3 depicts what effect of
orographic lifting that we discussed last
Friday? (HINT: return to those notes!)
Section 14.2 Climate Classification
1. Name the system used to classify
climates. What factors does it consider?
2. List the six main climate types.
3. What climate type do we live in? List its
characteristics.
4. What is a microclimate? Give an
example.

5.

What is the heat island effect and where

does it occur?