Question

Which of the following is NOT a major control on the global pattern of temperature?

a. land/ocean contrasts

b. altitude or elevation

c. longitude

d. latitude

Answer 1

c. longitude

Step-by-step explanation:

• Out of the factors that control the global distribution of temperature over the surface of the earth the latitudinal and altitudinal or elevation extends is quite important as a place over the equator and places over the poles experience a different type of temperature and climate of these regions is dominated by the pressure and wind cycles.

• Land and ocean distribution over the surface of the planet is a major factor that plays a key role in the distribution of heat budget as the earth has unequal heating and with results either by the rise of low and high-pressure difference over the northern and southern hemispheres.

• The longitudinal extent of the earth is shown by the lines running from north to south which is shown through the latitudinal extent of a place on the globe.