In this assignment you are going to take the temperatures for Ventura over the past month, find the mode and then average them together.

Next, you are going to do so for the hottest and coldest places in North America (Death Valley, CA and the Yukon in Canada)

Information on temperature in North America

List of the coldest places in the world

List of the hottest places in the world

What factors affect temperature?

1. MOUNTAINS
   • can block wind/breeze to make extremely hot
   • ALTITUDE=drop (decrease) in temperature
2. OCEAN / LAKES
   • cooling effect on weather
   • ocean WINDS can regulate temperature
3. DESERT
   • large surrounding deserts (the Sahara, Mojave, Kalahari)
4. VEGETATION
   • flora (plants/trees) can cool temperatures
     

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