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+ Any ideas???? If peeing your pants is cool… Consider me Miles Davis. Semiarid climate: Receive more moisture than Arid climates but less than more humid areas. Humid subtropical climate: Found on the eastern side of continents where there are warm air ocean currents. Usually contains forests. Section 3.3 cont… Deciduous forests – trees that lose their leaves during part of the year Coniferous forests – remain green all year. Section 3.3 cont. High latitude climates- Subarctic climate – Canada, Greenland, Northern Russia, parts of northern Europe. Cold climate, but also supports vast evergreen forests. Tundra climate – permanently frozen soil called permafrost. Section 3.3 cont… Ice Cap climate – found on Earth’s polar regions. World Geography Chapter 3 – “Weather and Climate” Chapter 3, Section 1: “Factors that affect climate” I. The Sun and Latitude: Tilt of the earth as the planet revolves around the Sun. Determines which hemisphere receives the most direct sunlight, which causes changing seasons. Sun’s energy: ? of the energy is absorbed in the atmosphere Earth’s surface absorbs the other ? Solar (form the Sun) energy is converted into heat and measured according to temperature. The Sun and Latitude cont. Greenhouse Effect: earth’s atmosphere traps heat energy. The greenhouse effect helps keep the planet warm, but recent evidence shows that the Earth has gotten noticebaly warmer. What might cause this? The Sun and Latitude cont. So what activities might be causing global warming? Eric Cartman’s backside? Animals? No, humans probably, activities like: 1. Burning coal or fossil fuels. The oil industry Burning oil, coal, natural gas, and other fossil fuels add CO2 to our atmosphere. And CO 2 absorbs heat, thus raising the temp. II. “Atmospheric Pressure” The air around you is constantly pushing you, a force called atmospheric pressure, or air pressure. As you climb a mountain, there is less air pushing you down, thus the air gets thinner is harder