TEMPERATURE
COMPOSITION OF THE ATMOSPHERE
Layers of the ATMOSPHERE
WEATHER and CLIMATE
LATITUDINAL ZONES
ELEMENTS & CONTROLS OF WEATHER & CLIMATE
WARM MAJOR CURRENTS OF THE WORLD
Land Breeze & Sea Breeze
2. NOTICE
Before we can fully understand
the difference between weather
and climate, and how they
change, it is important to know
where these changes occur and
how they happen.
18. Ocean Currents
is a large volume of ocean water that moves
as a unit and in a specific direction.
Cold or warm depending on
where it comes from.
CONTROLS OF
CLIMATE
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19. Ocean Currents
of the world help distribute heat all over the
Earth bringing warm temperature to cold
areas and cold temperatures to places that
are warm or hot.
CONTROLS OF
CLIMATE
21. Equatorial Currents
Japan Current or Kurushio
North Pacific Drift
North Atlantic Drift
Gulf Stream
Alaska Current
MAJOR CURRENTS
OF THE WORLD
22.
23. Land Breeze & Sea Breeze
phenomena illustrate how the heating
differences between land and water bodies
affect the development of pressure systems
and the movement of winds.
CONTROLS OF
CLIMATE
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25. Typhoon
comes from the Chinese word “tai-fung”, which
means “big wind”.
A compact low pressure system that moves as a
unit and within which winds are spiraling with
great speed.
CONTROLS OF
CLIMATE
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29. MONSOON ASIA
Particular in the Philippines and Southeast Asia.
HABAGAT
Southwest Monsoon
- experienced from
November to February.
AMIHAN
Northeast Monsoon
- experienced during
June to September.
31. The tropics are the areas
bounded by the Tropic of
Cancer (23 ½◦) in the North and
the Tropic of Capricorn (23 ½◦)
in the south.
LOW LATITUDE
CLIMATES
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32. Are areas found between the Tropic
of Cancer and the Arctic Circle in
the Northern Hemisphere and thos
between the Tropic of Capricorn
and the Antarctic Circle.
MIDDLE LATITUDE
CLIMATES
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33. Are places located in the High
latitudes. These are areas north of
the Arctic Circle and south of the
Antarctic Circle.
HIGH LATITUDE
CLIMATES
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