Factors that effect Climate Climate the weather in a region over a long period of time.

Latitude Low latitudes-between 30 degrees north and 30 degrees south (tropics region) Mid-Latitudes-between 30 degrees and 60 degrees north and between 30 and 60 degrees south (mid-latitude region) High Latitudes-between 60 and 90 degrees north and 60 and 90 degrees south (arctic region)

Amazon Rainforest- Equator Sahara Desert-25 N Lat Glaciers of Norway-70 N Lat

Elevation Elevation feet above sea level As elevation increases temperature decreases

South Dakota Mid-latitudes Summer Spring Fall Winter

Average Temperature 81 day, 65 night Ocean Currents Average Temperature 81 day, 65 night Record High 95, Low 52

Iceland Average Temperature 52 in July 30 in January

Landforms Mountains have a huge effect with the windward side receiving a significant different kind of climate than the windward side.

Atacama Desert (Rain shadow of the Andes Mts.

Sahara Desert (rain shadow of the Atlas Mts.)

Gobi Desert (rain shadow of the Altia Mts and Himalayas)

Death Valley (rain shadow of the Sierra Nevada Mts)