Term three week three

In term three week three, we only had a lesson with Miss J as our health check on Thursday interrupted our lessons. Miss J started with a brief revision on the previous lesson and then went on the four seasons. The four seasons associate with the weather, not the climate. Do you know why? It is because the climate associates with long term changes (over thirty to thirty-five years) but the weather associates with short term changes (daily). After that, she went through a brief explanation about tropical climate. Countries near the equator, like Singapore, always experience warmer temperatures. Do you also know its cause? The equator holds a latitude of zero degrees and it is the part where the Earth juts out most and hence, the distance and the time the sun rays need to take to travel to that particular part of the Earth is shorter. Thus, we can say that the heat there is more intense. Later, Miss J moved on to the factors influencing temperature:


>Altitude


>Latitude


>Cloud Cover


>Distance From The Sea


The last two terms I mentioned are new to me and Joanne. Cloud cover affects the temperature as clouds block solar radiation (heat) from reaching the ground surface. Sadly, Miss J did not explain the other factor affecting temperature: distance from the sea, as it was a bit too far-fetched from our syllabus. Though I did ask a bit more about the topic and she said that it was related to maritime and continental effect. I have done a little research and I found out that are more than four factors affecting temperature. They include: Ocean currents, Winds and Slope Of The Land. However, I will not be explaning all of them today. I will just talk about the distance from the sea. If you guys want to read up on these other factors, you could go to this website: kish-in/factors_affecting_temperature/