Today in class we reviewed everyone's powerpoints. Here are my notes:

Solar energy-
• Takes pressure off of natural resources.
• Sun emits radiation and this is re-radiaion trapped by the clouds which makes life possible on earth.
• Responsible for weather patters and ocean movement.
• Clouds and wind can prevent the Sun's energy from reaching the Earth.
• More reaches tropics than northern Alaska.

Latitude-
• The tropics are much warmer because of curvature of the Earth.
• Measured in degrees.
• Helps determine what the climate is like.


Interaction Between Land and Water
• Land areas heat and cool faster than bodies of water which is why the temp. is hot in the summer and cold in the winter.
• Continentally- inland climates with hot summers and cold winters.
• Maritime Climates- that are close to ocean with cool cloudy summers, and cold winters but not freezing.
• Global arrangement of continents has a big role on the world climate.



Global Pressure Patterns
• Earth is unevenly heated.
• Large oceanic cells expand during warm summer months.
• Enlarged cells make rainless summers.
• Typhoons are formed in Asia.
• Hurricanes are formed in North America and Caribbean in summer months.
• Patterns depending on the seasons.

Global Wind Patterns
• Trade winds- warm low breezes that blow most of the time.
• Wind is blowing all the time.
• Different wind patterns like trade winds, doldrums, prevailing westerlies, polar easterlies.
• Air flows from high pressure to low pressure so winds flow into low-pressure cells.