We have five gross patterns of temperatures that are controlled by five factors, altitude, latitude, land-water contrast, and ocean currents as described in (Hess, 2011 McKnight’s Physical Geography: A Landscape Appreciation, New Jersey, pg. 89). The five factors climate patterns that affect Kansas City, Missouri and Bangkok, Thailand, which are a thousand and thousands of miles apart. The latitude has an influence on climate due to the Earth tilt and the changing angle of incoming solar different time of the year. The altitude for both of these places are about the same. For the latitude the control of temperature the isotherns would run exactly east and west, parallels of the earth (Hess, 2011, Physical Geography Laboratory Manual,
