Astronomy
This takes 24 hours or 15 degrees per hour
What is Earth's Rotation
Gasses like carbon dioxide and methane that absorb heat (infrared) energy
What are greehouse gasses
One year or 365.25 days
What is the length or time for Earth's revolution around the sun
The coordinate feature that has the biggest control on temperature
What is Latitude
This is the most effective identifying property of minerals
What is hardness?
It takes 29.5 days
What is the length of time for all moon phases
The tropic at 23.5 degrees South
What is the Tropic of Capricorn
Water begins to condense and form clouds at this value.
What is the dewpoint
Side of the mountain that is warm and dry. This side of the mountain may have rain shadow
What is leeward?
This pressure system rotates counterclockwise and inward
What is a low pressure system?
As the angle of insolation increases, the intensity of insolation will...
Increase
Differences in air pressure caused by uneven heating
What is the cause of wind
The thing that give all minerals their basic properties of luster, hardness, cleavage, fracture, color and streak
chemical composition
The day sunlight hits the tropic of cancer (23.5 degrees North) directly (at a 90 degree angle)
What is Summer Solstice or Longest day of the year, June 21.
The type of electromagnetic radiation that relates to heat.
What is Infrared.
The front that describes two cold air masses squeezing in on a warm air mass, pushing it upwards.
What is an occluded front?
This climate pattern pushes warm water to the east (the U.S. West Coast)
What is El Nino