Posts Tagged ‘affect’

Question: How did location, climate, and natural resources affect where ppl live and how they trade in (continued below)?
How did location, climate, and natural resources affect where ppl live and how they trade in Mexico, Venezuela, Brazil, and Cuba?????

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Answer by MBK
In Brazil, in the early days of European settlement the main area was the NE where they could grow sugar, in those days the most profitable use for a New World colony. Import slaves, export sugar. Climate-based choice. Plus the advantage of being on the coast for trade.

Later on the SE became more populous and much more prosperous. Still on the coast (easiest place to trade from in the days of sailing ships) (/before infrastructure of roads/railways had been built). Healthier climate, better soil, not so dry.

The interior is still much more thinly populated. The Amazon jungle is thick, full of dangerous beasts, hot and sticky, and it rains a lot. Not an easy place to develop agriculture or industry. Extractive industries obviously go where the resource is, so there are mining towns in otherwise remote regions, and also, indeed especially, in the state of Minas Gerais which has the natural resources (minerals) and also is relatively close to domestic markets (the Sao Paulo/Rio/Brasilia triangle) and ports.

Mexico – people don’t live in the desert much, because neither the pre-Columbian indigenous Mexicans nor the European late-medieval conquerors/immigrants had any technology or desire to do so. In the pre-industrial centuries, where the corn grows well is where the people lived. Mexico City on the high plateau as a central market-town gathering-place convenient for administration yet also fertile and with a nice enough climate. Later Guadelajara and other cities also grew on the Plateau. More recently some cities have grown big on the US border just because of the artificial line – Ciudad Juarez, Tijuana, Nuevo Laredo etc are where they are entirely because of the poitical/military forces that put the frontier where it is. US businesses set up there to take advantage of lower wages in Mexico (maquiladora) to make or assemble goods as near to US markets as they could while still being in Mexico, and export them to the US. Some Mexicans also moved to these cities so they could live in Mexico and work (legally or illegally) in cities close to but on the US side of the border such as San Diego and El Paso (again, typically for lower wages than Americans would accept). Cancun is where it is because the sea is warm the beaches are beautiful, it has the natural resources for a holiday resort (= what Americans call a “vacation destination”).

Question: How does the polar jet stream move from summer to winter? How would this affect the climate to the east of the?
How does the polar jet stream move from summer to winter? How would this affect the climate of the locations where it moves?

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Answer by cyswxman
In general the polar jet moves equatorialward as the respective hemispheres cool during their falls and winters. The jet itself does not really affect the climate as their courses and locations are more of a responsive nature to where the air masses move themselves.

by manos_simonides

Question: How does climate change affect poverty?
I have to do a project on this for school. I have to create awarness of the way climate change affects poverty. I have searched this but i haven’t come up with sufficient results. There isn’t many websites with this kind of information.
Thank in advance!

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Answer by The original housekeeper
the hotter it is the more money you have. the colder it is the less money you have.

Question: How does climate change affect poverty?
I have to do a project on this for school. I have to create awarness of the way climate change affects poverty. I have searched this but i haven’t come up with sufficient results. There isn’t many websites with this kind of information.
Thank in advance!

Answer:

Answer by The original housekeeper
the hotter it is the more money you have. the colder it is the less money you have.

by manos_simonides

Question: Does the climate affect industrial development?
I mean, take Africans. No reason to suppose they are any less intelligent than white people but living in a parched climate is hardly conducive to industrial development and innovation. Hardly surprising the industrial revolution started in Britain and not in Botswana! The weather is cooler and you don’t have to saunter around all day swaggering and trying to stay (and look?) cool.

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Answer by Hillel
yes, if you look backwards,
and take Egypt for example, the population was limited to stay near the nile, and their work was limited to what this area of the nile could offer them.
the rest was a deserted desert.

some places will have certain resources that other places dont have. many resources are a direct result of climate in the area they are present.
so if that same industry is leaning on certain resources, you could say that industrial development is affected by climate.

it affected by many more factors, say for example your country is rich with a certain resource, but the world’s market has no demand at all for this resource, then you wont build industry around it and based on it, you will only lose money.
on the other hand, make that resource oil for example, you will have a lot of industry around it.

resources are also in need according to the time in history or future, before we knew how to use oil for our needs, places with oil would be poor, and as we finally learnd how to use it, these places are very rich and developed.

so to sum it up,
YES, i think climate is ONE factor that affects industrial development, but its nothing more than another factor amongs many

by Oxfam International

Question: How does Germany’s geography, climate, culture and religion affect the food produced?
I know a ton of info on the geography, climate, culture and religion, but how does it affect the food?

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Answer by Thrice adream
Germany’s cold winters and short summers led to many hearty dishes of pork, gravies, breads, potatoes, dumplings, sausages and their beloved “Senf” (mustard-hundreds of varieties of it).

But modern Germany’s food transcends her place on the map and her climate, as she has the most cosmopolitan restaurants and most ingenious cooks, followed closely by the Austrians, in all of Europe.

by Daysleeper724

Question: How do non-hybrid cars affect air pollution?
How do non-hybrid cars affect air pollution?
How do hybrid cars help stopping air pollution?

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Answer by Bibs
Every production of energy increases pollution. Automobiles burn gasoline or diesel fuel. Most of the combustibles are changed into carbon monoxide and the remainder are evaporated into the air in the form of a gas which may later condense into a liquid or solid. All these things are referred to as pollution. A hybrid causes less polution because they are more efficient. When you step on your brakes, an electric motor is converted into a generator which generates electricity for a battery which in turn may be used push the car with the electric motor at a later time.. The question remains, will the fuel savings be enough to justify the added cost of hybred equipment? .

by Campus Progress

Question: How does the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere affect climate?
a. As carbon dioxide concentrations increase, temperatures decrease
b. As carbon dioxide concentrations increase, temperatures increase
c. Carbon dioxide concentrations have no effect on climate
d. As carbon dioxide concentrations increase, temperatures become more random

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Answer by Pennsylvania
b. As carbon dioxide concentrations increase, temperatures increase

by manos_simonides

Question: How does a large body of water affect the weather and climate of an area?
How does a large body of water affect the weather and climate of an area?

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Answer by mathematicsftw
Being close to a large body of water will keep the temperature from varying greatly. The further inland you are from water, the greater extremes you will have in temperature.

Other factors like latitude and elevation also influence the fluctuation in temperatures (i.e. The mountains in Colorado have wide ranges of temperatures from day/night, while San Diego, CA has a relatively constant or small variation)

Question: What is the year round climate in Murmansk,Russia and how does it affect the city and it’s agriculture?
I’m doing something for school where I have to get info about the year round climate in Murmansk,Russia and how it affects the city and it’s agriculture. So does anyone know any sites that could be useful or does anyone have an answer they can give me for the question?

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Answer by linlyons
you could google Murmansk weather.
or, more useful, Murmansk climate.