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Latitude (Factors affecting Climate)

LATITUDE Places located at high latitudes (far from the equator) receive less sunlight than places at low latitudes (close to the...

Topography (Factors affecting Climate)

TOPOGRAPHY The Topography of an area can greatly influence our climate. Mountain ranges are natural barriers to air movement. In...

Distance from bodies of water (Factors affecting Climate)

DISTANCE FROM BODIES OF WATER If there are no bodies of water to moderate the climate the same conditions follow as with vast, flat...

What is Weather?

Weather - condition of the atmosphere at a specific place and time. Weather is the state of the atmosphere, describing for example the...

Rainfall (Factors affecting Climate)

By: Linen Calope Jr. RAINFALL Countries in tropical regions, especially those surounded by big bodies of water like the Philippines, have...

Ocean Current (Factors affecting Climate)

By; Linen Calope Jr. Ocean currents may be warm ocean currents or cold ocean currents. Warm ocean currents originate ocean currents...

Altitude (Factors affecting Climate)

By: Linen Calope Jr. Altitude is the distance of a place above sea level. This distance affects the temperature of a place. The ihgher...

Factors affecting Climate

By: Linen Calope Jr. There are two major weather conditions that determine the climate of a region - temperature and rainfall. The Sun...

What is Climate?

By: Linen Calope Jr. WHAT IS IT? Climate describes the usual weather on a particular place. It is the average weather condition of a...

Signs of an impending Volcanic Eruption

By: Linen Calope Jr. Signs of an impending volcanic eruption According to the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology...

Other types of Volcanic Eruptions

By: Linen Calope Jr. STROMBOLIAN - a periodic weak to violentt eruption characterized by fountain lava, just like the Irazu Volcano in...

Phreatomagmatic Eruption

By: Linen Calope Jr. WHAT IS IT? Is a violent eruption due to the contact between water and magma. As a result, a large column of very...

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