Mountain ranges, coasts, and Great Lakes channel air-mass movement that creates regional climates.

Evidence

The cyclical and regular movement of these air masses, mainly from north to south, channeled by mountain ranges and seacoasts, and influenced by bodies of water such as the Great Lakes, is constantly triggered by the advance and retreat of the sun north and south over the continent 60 TO 80 e, < faopig P| Axwat oi comes Oh - See Distribution of Precipitation Over North America from winter to summer. — Vinson Brown, Reading the Woods, 93

Categorization

• XREF: Connects directly to the course’s disturbance-reading frame: climate as the master driver behind Minnesota’s forest types. — connects to: Air masses formed over specific regions carry their origin’s moisture and temperature — Vinson Brown, Reading the Woods: Seeing More in…, 86; Each thousand feet of elevation shifts climate roughly a hundred miles northward. — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom,…, 788; Wind can lift snow off mountains so peaks seem to smoke. — Isabella L. Bird, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains, 245 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Plant communities define distinct climatic life zones across latituderable and elevation gradients. #expands (1.00) — Vinson Brown, Reading the Woods, 102
• Each thousand feet of elevation shifts climate roughly a hundred miles northward. #expands (0.90) — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 788
• Wind can lift snow off mountains so peaks seem to smoke. #complicates (0.85) — Isabella L. Bird, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains, 245
• Climate changes facilitated human migration into the Americas. #complicates (0.75) — Neil MacGregor, A History of the World in 100 Objects, 122
• Climate influenced the use of pipes instead of cigars in North America. #complicates (0.75) — Neil MacGregor, A History of the World in 100 Objects, 603