Given a scientific question and its correct answer, generate supporting facts for the answer. This supporting fact can be an explanation for the answer to the given question.

[Q]: Question: Which currents distribute heat around the planet and have a large impact on climate? Answer: surface
[A]: Surface currents are extremely important because they distribute heat around the planet. Surface currents also have a tremendous influence on climate around the globe.

[Q]: Question: Two important types of energy that can be converted to one another include potential and what? Answer: kinetic
[A]: Give examples of energy conversions between potential and kinetic energy.

[Q]: Question: Latitude affects the amount of what received by an area, which in turn affects the temperature of a region? Answer: solar radiation
[A]:
We saw that the amount of solar radiation an area receives depends on its latitude. The amount of solar radiation affects the temperature of a region. Latitude has other effects on climate.