1. Topic: Mountains & Ocean Currents’ Effect on Climate

3. Cascade Range What do you notice about the picture? Cascade Mountains

5. Scanned picture here The Orographic Effect Wind hits this side Side away from the wind Air cools to dew pt forming clouds and precipitation Dry air sinks creating a rain shadow Warm Dry

7. The Orographic Effect on Precipitation

8. What else affects climate?

9. IcelandGreenland

10. Surface Ocean Currents - ESRT page 4

11. Gulf Stream Current To Europe

12. Gulf Stream Iceland Greenland

13. Surface Ocean Currents - ESRT page 4 --- --- --- is carried to ---, --- --- --- is carried to ---

14. ESRT pg 4 Equator

15. Moisture & Latitude

16. Questions of the Ocean’s Surface Currents 1)If a cool current passes a coastal area, what will happen to the temperature of the area? –--- 2)If a warm current passes a coastal area, what will happen to the temperature of the area? –---

17. Warm ocean currents originate at the 1)Polar regions 2)Equator 3)Ocean Bottom 4)Coast of Antarctica

18. Surface Ocean Currents - ESRT page 4

19. What is the name of the ocean current that provides cold water to South America? 1)Peru Current 2)California Current 3)Agulhas Current 4)Brazil Current

20. Which cool ocean current flows completely around the world? 1)Gulf stream Current 2)North Atlantic Current 3)Antarctic Circumpolar Current 4)North Equatorial Current FQ

21. On the diagram below, at which letter is precipitation occurring? Ocean Mountain A. D. C.B.

22. On the diagram below, at which letter is the leeward side of Mountain? Ocean Mountain A. D. C.B.