Climate and Weather

Peyton M

March, 16, 2017

Green group

1. Write down the main idea of the chapter "Climate" here.

The main idea of the chapter "Climate" is climate and weather.

2. Reading Check Questions on 54- What is the difference between weather and climate?

The diference between weather and climate is that

3. Applying Map Skills Question 1. In which general direction does the wind blow over North America?

The general direction of the wind is from the Gulf of Mexico tarwds the coast of north amarica and goes across the Atlantic Ocean up to Europe>

4. Applying Map Skills Question 2. What winds did European sailers use to get to South America and the islands north of it?

European sailers used the northeastern traid route to get to South Amarica and the islands north of it.

5. Answer the Reading Check Question on page 55- How does the tilt of the Earth affect climate? (This is a difficult, tricky, complicated question. You can NOT just copy the answer out of the textbook. Because the answer is NOT EXACTLY found in the textbook. You will have to figure it out, think about the notes we took and discussed, and ... re-read page 55 to answer this well.

The tilt of the earth efects the climate because it will not always be hot here and cold there. The tilt of the earth efects where the suns rays hit the earth whitch in turn efects the climate.

6. How does this relate to the Voyages of Columbus?

This realates to Columbus voages because colubus used the wind patterns to help him voige to "China".

https://sites.google.com/a/sau66.org/columbus-voyage-pm/

mcgurl, ryan "Hadley cell explained" Feb 24, 2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rsdxn70pSG4. Accessed on March 22, 2017.