What five factors affect climate?

Answer 1

The long-term distribution of heat and precipitation on Earth's surface is called global climate. Heat from the sun keeps the Earth's average temperature at about 60°F(16°C), within a range that allows for biological life and maintains the planet's life-sustaining reservoirs of liquid water. Astronomical variations and atmospheric shielding cause incoming solar radiation to fall unevenly on the Earth's surface. Ocean currents and winds further redistribute heat and moisture around the globe, creating climate zones. Climate zones have precipitation, temperature, wind, and ocean current patterns that together determine local, short-term weather, and affect development of ecologically adapted suites of plants and animals. Changes in the astronomical, oceanographic, atmospheric, and geological factors that determine global climate can lead to global climate change over time. The term climate is reserved for regional patterns of temperature and precipitation that persist for decades and centuries. Local atmospheric, oceanic, and temperature phenomena like storms and droughts that occur over hours, days, or seasons, is generally referred to as weather.

Answer 2

1. The trapping of heat by the atmosphere

2. The latitude

3. The transport of heat by winds and ocean currents

4. The amount of precipitation

5. The shape and elevation of land masses

Answer 3

Five factors are: the trapping of heat by the atmosphere, latitude, the transport of heat by winds and ocean currents, amount of precipitation, the shape and elevation of landmasses

Answer 4

The sun
Tilt of the earth's axis
Seasons of the year
Location as to how near or far away from the equator
The moon's gravitational influence on earth
Type of land mass
Altitude above sea level
Deforestation
The ozone layer
Burning of fossil fuels

Answer 5

it is sun, location, water, wind, and mountains.

Answer 6

Five factors that cause climate change

Answer 7

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