Earth Science Review
Climates and Oceans-
1. With coastal climates, the locations are on the windward side, meaning the weather patterns move from the ocean to land, giving them mild summers and cool winters. This means that there isn’t a very large temperature range for coastal climates. Inland climates are more of the land heating and cooling, because they heat to high temperatures in the day and then cool a great amount at night. Also, the weather patterns are moving from land to water, creating warmer summers and colder winters. Elevation affects climate, because the higher the elevation, the more the temperature decreases. As latitude increases and you go closer toward the poles, temperature decreases. Leeward coasts have warmer summers and cooler winters, and the weather patterns go from land to water. Leeward coasts have mild summers, and cool winters, and the weather patterns go from the water toward land.
2. Land and water heat and cool differently because in the day time, land absorbs more heat, making the temperature increase quickly. Water on the other hand reflects most of the heat from the sun, making the temperature increase in the day much less than that of land. At night, land gives off more of the heat it absorbed in the day, making temperatures cool pretty quickly, with a greater decrease in temperature. Water cools not as quickly, with a smaller decrease in temperature from night to day. This is because the cool water on the top gets pushed down by warm water in the deeper parts.
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4. The thermocline upwells, because the thermocline is the transition layer between the surface layer and the deep ocean currents. The deeper, colder water rises from below the thermocline, and replaces the not-very nutrient rich surface water, with nutrient rich water from below.
5. In El Nino, warm waters of the western Pacific migrate eastward and reach the South American coast. The cool nutrient rich water normally found off the coast of Peru gets replaced with warm, non
1. With coastal climates, the locations are on the windward side, meaning the weather patterns move from the ocean to land, giving them mild summers and cool winters. This means that there isn’t a very large temperature range for coastal climates. Inland climates are more of the land heating and cooling, because they heat to high temperatures in the day and then cool a great amount at night. Also, the weather patterns are moving from land to water, creating warmer summers and colder winters. Elevation affects climate, because the higher the elevation, the more the temperature decreases. As latitude increases and you go closer toward the poles, temperature decreases. Leeward coasts have warmer summers and cooler winters, and the weather patterns go from land to water. Leeward coasts have mild summers, and cool winters, and the weather patterns go from the water toward land.
2. Land and water heat and cool differently because in the day time, land absorbs more heat, making the temperature increase quickly. Water on the other hand reflects most of the heat from the sun, making the temperature increase in the day much less than that of land. At night, land gives off more of the heat it absorbed in the day, making temperatures cool pretty quickly, with a greater decrease in temperature. Water cools not as quickly, with a smaller decrease in temperature from night to day. This is because the cool water on the top gets pushed down by warm water in the deeper parts.
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4. The thermocline upwells, because the thermocline is the transition layer between the surface layer and the deep ocean currents. The deeper, colder water rises from below the thermocline, and replaces the not-very nutrient rich surface water, with nutrient rich water from below.
5. In El Nino, warm waters of the western Pacific migrate eastward and reach the South American coast. The cool nutrient rich water normally found off the coast of Peru gets replaced with warm, non