A few days ago
tankcat2

!!!Please Help Me!!!?

For this one homework assignment I need to know how climate and geography interact. I have thought for about an hour and cant think of basicly anything. PLEASE PLEASE help me with some ideas!!!

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A few days ago
jprentice3

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Alright, here is one example.

I live on the high desert of California. We are at about 2,400 feet and we have a desert climate by category, as we get very little rain. The average is about 7 inches a year. But do to the altitude and the fact that we are surrounded by mountains and less than 100 miles from the ocean we have had as much as 6-8 inches of snow each year. We can get as hot as 115 in the summer and as cold as 2-3 degrees below zero.

Now, contrast that with the Palm Springs area of mid-eastern California, also a desert but the low desert. The temps there are normally 10 degrees higher, daily, year round. It is simply a factor of its altitude. It is surrounded by mountains but 200 miles from the ocean. It is interesting that the geography and higher temps have brought in older residents, and facilitated a lot of golf courses being built. With all of the new residents and gambling casino’s the number of pools and man made lakes has pushed the humidity up about 7- 10 percent over the last 20 years. That alone has factored into them now getting a great deal of summer time thunder storms, much like the south, in the late summer months, late in the day.

I hope this helps.

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A few days ago
rocksister
Wow, I’m about as ignorant of geography as Miss Teen South Carolina, but I actually can give you an example. The closer a place is to the equator, the hotter and more tropical it is. The ocean is warmer, therefore hurricanes are just begging to be formed (they form over warm ocean waters). This is why you see never hear of hurricanes forming near Greenland or Antarctica. One more; my friend lives in Michigan, where the Great Lakes are situated. The moisture from the lakes evaporates into the air. In the winter months, this moisture from the lakes condenses, freezes, and falls back to the ground as snow. So the lakes “cause” lake effect snow, which I know you have heard of. Hope this helps. And I am even from South Carolina!!!
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A few days ago
Kay B
I think that the climate would affect the geography in that the climate would determine the type of soil and crops which is the physical geography and this would intent affect the human geography for this would determine if people would want to inhabitat that land. Hope that was helpful.
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A few days ago
howdigethere
I don’t know if this is what you need, but the climate of a given area is dependent on it’s location on the earth in relationship to the sun.

High altitudes (mountains) are colder than low altitudes.

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A few days ago
Anonymous
The farther away from the equator (geography/location), the colder it will be (climate/temperature).
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