Chapter 8 Review 3. The horizontal wind determines the spacing between the isobars on a surface weather map each day. For example, if the pressure gradient is strong for that specific day, the isobars would be close together resulting in high winds. If there was a low pressure gradient, the isobars would be more spread out. Thus meaning, that the horizontal winds blow from locations that have higher pressures to lower pressures.
The cooled air over the land moves in to take the place of the rising warm air over the water. That is how bodies of water can affect the
Paul Krugman author of the article “Confronting Inequality” stresses the inequality of our social classes in the United States, he uses statistics to demonstrate the staggering consequences of this inequality within our social classes. Krugman emphasizes the fact that a majority of our wealth is owned by about one percent of the population, which is leaving the middle and lower class at an extreme disadvantage. One example Krugman uses is education; children that have wealthy families, have a higher percentage of finishing college than those of lower income families, proving the statement that Krugman was accentuating, “Class-inherited class- usually trumps talent.” The parents within this middle to lower class have been exceed their financial
Each chapter plays a role in the development of climates around the world. Temperature, air pressure, and winds all play their individual role in each location's own climate. Weather is our short-term while climate is long-term so these correspond with each other. Forecasting of these two is connected yet very different at the same time.
How Climate and Geography Affected Mendocino Mendocino is a nice little spot by the ocean with lots of redwoods, oh and it’s really, really, isolated. The town was founded in the 1850’s and was originally a Pomo settlement called Buldam, then became a logging town and was actually named Meiggsville after Henry Meggs, and eventually became Mendocino after the spanish explorer Antonio de Mendoza. So the Pomo were a Native American tribe that was linked by location, and language, and less by political and social links.
The mountains ranges in Moscow, Russia block moderating temperatures from the Indian and Pacific oceans. Since Moscow. Russia has little exposure to ocean influences, the city receives low to moderate amounts of precipitation. The albedo affect influences the climate in Moscow, Russia during the winter time. There is a lot of of ice formed during the winter time in Moscow, Russia.
This affects the climate of Juneau because water has a very high specific heat, which means that it takes a lot of energy to raise the temperature one degree. Due to being on the coast of a large body of water, the temperature of Juneau doesn’t vary much because the water near or surrounding the city takes longer to heat up and longer to cool down than land masses, so cities near water tend to have less
Climate within different geographic areas are the common weather patterns of a specific area and some causes of climate within different geographic areas are the temperature of that area and geographic features such as bodies of water or mountains. Bodies of water like an ocean can create cooler ocean breezes that can affect the climate of that area. 5. What is a biome and what causes biome regions?
In geography, latitude is a geographic coordinate that specifies the north to south position of a point on the Earth's surface also describing an angle which ranges from 0° at the Equator to 90° (North or South) at the poles. The countries of Egypt and Botswana, both located on the continent of Africa, have many weather related similarities and some differences, though each are generally equidistance from the equator on opposite Hemispheres. Botswana, Africa sits in the Southern Hemisphere at 22° S while Egypt, Africa sits in the Northern Hemisphere at 26°N. To fully understand the two countries and their weather similarities and differences, one must first look at the climactic tendencies of the continent of Africa.
, changes in shape of the Earth’s orbit and its tilt can also affect climate as that determines the amount of sunlight that reaches the Earth. Similar to what is mentioned in the previous point; the tilt and position of the Earth’s axis affect temperature on very long timescales. This means that it take long for the position and the tilt of the Earth’s axis to change. Therefore, this also fails to explain the recent rapid warming of the
Although the weather differs from north to south, all areas receive a large amount of precipitation. Heavily influenced by the Pacific Ocean, winters are severe and summers are moderate. Further south, there is less precipitation than up north. All year round, the temperature is often low.
There was a difference with the north and south climate, they were very different places when it came to the use of land. The Southern states climate was the idea place to grow products such as cotton which became a strong business for the south during that time. Also Eli Whitney invention of the Cotton Gin helped the south become more increasingly dependent with the cotton. The planters who were growing cotton became some the wealthiest planters in the society, which gave them the opportunity in controlling politics and the society as well. The North were not losing focus their society flourished in industrialization and it were making many new wealthy entrepreneurs and gave them the opportunity to employ cheap immigrant for labor.
Anarchism is the political theory that hierarchical order is unnecessary in society and that human beings can cooperate without such structures overseeing them. Anarchy as a political theory has potential but it fails to recognize that authority is a natural state. Reworking some terms of authority may be beneficial for a kinder, more humane government in the future, but eliminating all forms of authority is not realistic. In an ideal anarchist society, with cooperation between all humans, we could experience true freedom in the form of individual autonomy. We should look to anarchist ideals such as equality and freedom of expression for how we would like to see the future, but relying on the philosophy to govern our lives would not likely pan out well.
Climate change is happening at a really fast pace. One of the affected areas is the Arctic and the Arctic life. Climate change is the change in weather patterns over a long period of time caused by global warming. Global warming is a gradual increase in the overall temperature of the earth 's atmosphere generally attributed to the greenhouse effect caused by increased levels of carbon dioxide and other pollutants. Ever since the industrial revolution, the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has increased drastically.
A. There are other ways also that affects the ocean through global warming. Plenty of things that are happening to the ocean are associated to global warming. One important thing is warm water which is caused from global warming and it is harming and killing algae in the
