STANDARD WG.2a The student will analyze how physical and surface by ecological processes shape Earth’s a) explaining regional climatic patterns and weather phenomena and their effects on people and places; Essential Understandings Essential Knowledge Climate is defined by certain Climatic characteristics characteristics. Temperature Precipitation Climate patterns result from the Seasons (hot/cold, wet/dry) interplay of common elements. Climatic elements Climatic regions have distinctive Influence of latitude vegetation. Influence of winds Influence of elevation Certain weather phenomena are unique Proximity to water to specific regions. Influence of ocean currents Climate and weather phenomena affect World climatic regions how people live in different regions. Low latitudes (e.g., tropical wet, tropical wet and dry, arid, semiarid, highland) Middle latitudes (e.g., semiarid, arid, humid continental) High latitudes (e.g., subarctic, tundra, icecap) Vegetation regions Rain forest Savanna Desert Steppe Middle-latitude forest Taiga Tundra
STANDARD WG.2a The student will analyze how physical and ecological processes shape Earth’s surface by a) explaining regional climatic patterns and weather phenomena and their effects on people and places; Essential Understandings Essential Knowledge Climate is defined by certain characteristics. Climate patterns result from the interplay of common elements. Climatic regions have distinctive vegetation. Certain weather phenomena are unique to specific regions. Climate and weather phenomena affect how people live in different regions. Climatic characteristics Temperature Precipitation Seasons (hot/cold, wet/dry) Climatic elements Influence of latitude Influence of winds Influence of elevation Proximity to water Influence of ocean currents World climatic regions Low latitudes (e.g., tropical wet, tropical wet and dry, arid, semiarid, highland) Middle latitudes (e.g., semiarid, arid, humid continental) High latitudes (e.g., subarctic, tundra, icecap) Vegetation regions Rain forest Savanna Desert Steppe Middle-latitude forest Taiga Tundra
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