Download Factors that Influence Climates in the USA Pd: Name: Use the slides

Factors that Influence Climates in the USA
Pd:
Name:
Use the slides on the teacher's websites to help answer the following questions.
Pacific Ocean Currents
1. From which part of the Pacific Ocean does the California Current originate?
2. How would this influence the climate of the West Coast?
Prevailing Westerlies
3. Generally speaking, which direction will weather systems move across the USA?
4. How do the prevailing Westerlies nullify the effects of the Atlantic Ocean on the climate of the East Coast?
Continentality
5. How does continentality affect the climate of the interior US
Latitude
6. In what way does Latitude affect climate?
Mountains
7. How would the Rocky Mountains affect the climate just to the east?
8. How does the position of the two major mountain ranges in the USA allow Arctic cold fronts to reach the
Southern USA?