Transcript Cascade Range What do you notice about the picture?

Topic:
Mountains & Ocean Currents’
Effect on Climate
Cascade Range
What do you notice about the picture?
The Orographic Effect
Wind hits this side
Air cools
to picture
dew here
Scanned
pt forming clouds
and precipitation
Side away from the wind
Dry air sinks
creating a
rain shadow
Warm Dry
The Orographic Effect on
Precipitation
What else affects climate?
Greenland
Iceland
Surface Ocean Currents - ESRT page 4
Gulf Stream
Current
Greenland
Iceland
Surface Ocean Currents - ESRT page 4
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ESRT pg 4
Equator
Moisture & Latitude
Questions of the Ocean’s
Surface Currents
1) If a cool current passes a coastal area,
what will happen to the temperature
of the area?
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2) If a warm current passes a coastal
area, what will happen to the
temperature of the area?
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Warm ocean currents originate at
the
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4)
Polar regions
Equator
Ocean Bottom
Coast of Antarctica
Surface Ocean Currents - ESRT page 4
What is the name of the ocean current
that provides cold water to South
America?
1) Peru Current
2) California Current
3) Agulhas Current
4) Brazil Current
FQ
Which cool ocean current flows
completely around the world?
1) Gulf stream Current
2) North Atlantic Current
3) Antarctic Circumpolar Current
4) North Equatorial Current
On the diagram below, at which
letter is precipitation occurring?
B.
C.
Mountain
A.
Ocean
D.
On the diagram below, at which
letter is the leeward side of
Mountain?
B.
C.
Mountain
A.
Ocean
D.