Use local environmental information to analyze how weather and climate are affected by landforms and bodies of water 0507.8.4

Links verified 9/19/2014

1. Climate - systems that play a role in determining climate
2. Create a New Hawaiian Island - read the page then click on the link at the bottom of the page to experiment with these local effects on climate by creating a new Hawaiian island!
3. How do geographical features affect climate in Juneau Alaska? - from Wiki Answers
4. Interactive Climate Map - Move your cursor over a rectangle to see a climograph. Click on the rectangle to view information about the climate at that location
5. Interactive Weather Maker - investigate how weather is made by observing the effect of the changes that you make also
6. Koppen's Climate Classification - Click on a blue "x" to see the climograph for that location [This expired link is available through the Wayback Machine Internet Archive. If the page doesn't load quickly click on Impatient? at the bottom right of the page.]
7. Landforms in the Continental United States - high quality transparency master
8. U.S. Climate at a Glance - from the National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, North Carolina
9. World Climate - What the weather is normally like for tens of thousands of places worldwide! WorldClimate.com contains over 85,000 records of world climate data (historical weather averages)

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