Chapter 3, Section 2

1.
Lower latitudes will generally have a lot of direct rays from the sun year-round and warm and hot climates while higher ones will have indirect but continuous sunlight year-round or have near continuous light almost all year. In midlatitudes, areas will rarely see a drastic change in temperature, except when they change seasons. Generally, the higher the elevation of an area, the less heat.
2.
The winds from the poles blow towards the equator and the tropic winds blow towards the poles do to the temperature differences on the Earth's surface, thus giving parts the Earth warm wind at one point in the year, and cool wind at another point. As ocean currents circulate, cold water from the poles cool land when they pass just as warm water warms the land. Landforms may influence the climate with the rain shadow effect meaning that the windward side of a mountatin range recieves most of the ocean from the ocean while the leeward side becomes hot and dry.
Creative Writing:
If the North Atlantic Current weakened or shut down permenately, Western European climate would drastically change. The coast of this land mass would lose a great deal of heat, on both the windward and leeward side of mountain ranges. And because of this cool down, the wind would carry even less heat to other regions of Europe as well.