GEOG220 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Arctic Circle, Ocean Pacific
1 Mar 2018
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Main topics : distinguish between weather and climate, name the basic elements of weather and climate, and list several important atmospheric hazards. Area that stretches from tropics to arctic circle. Thousands of miles of coastline and extensive regions that are far from influence of the ocean. Pacific storms strike the west coast while the eastern states are sometimes influenced by events in the atlantic and gulf of mexico. Center of country common to experience weather events triggered when frigid southward bound canadian air masses clash with northward moving tropical air masses from gulf of mx. Us likely has greatest variety of weather of any other country in world. Severe weather alerts are more frequent and more damaging in us than any other nation. Weather influences people and people influence weather. Meteorology is the scientific study of the atmosphere and the phenomena that we usually refer to as weather. Meteorology, astronomy, oceanography, and geology make up earth sciences.
