University of Vermont. Avg. The University of Vermont combines faculty-student relationships most commonly found in a small liberal arts college with the resources of a major research institution. The university is home to 10,371 undergraduates, 1,516 graduate students, 460 medical students and 1,299 full- and part-time faculty.
B. Air currents have a direct effect on rainfall. 1. Because Earth rotates on its axis daily and its surface consists of continents and oceans, an overall flow of warm and cold air currents are modified into three large circulation cells in each hemisphere. a) At the equator, the sun heats the air and evaporates water.
exists and is an alternate of . 4) ocean currents affect the temperature of the air masses that blow over it. the temperature of the current depends on where the current originates. 5)Mountain barriers (when moist warm wind blows up the windward side of a mountain it is forced to cool, and cool air cannot hold in the moisture.