Water Properties
Surface tension allows small bugs to _____________ across the surface of water without falling through.
What is glide, move, or run?
Why does cold water sink?
What is high density?
How have greenhouse gas emissions changed over the last 200 years?
What is increased?
Why have global temperatures risen a few degrees since industrialization?
What is human activity such as burning fossil fuels?
Maritime air masses form over _______________.
What is water or the ocean?
Capillary action allows water molecules to _______________.
What is travel upward?
Ocean currents help ______________ temperatures on Earth.
What is regulate?
What is the greenhouse effect?
What is trapping of infrared radiation by specific atmospheric gases?
What color will an object be if it has a high albedo?
What is white or light colored?
Where do continental artic air masses form?
What is over land near the poles?
Water heats up and cools down quickly which means it has a ___________________________.
What is high specific heat capacity?
Water is transferred from the hydrosphere to the atmosphere when oceans heat up and water ____________________.
What is evaporates?
Which greenhouse gas has increased most in concentration since human industrialization?
What is Carbon Dioxide?
The lowest layer of Earth's atmosphere has the highest pressure of the atmospheric layers. What is this layer called?
What is the troposphere?
A sea breeze shows warm air above the land and cool air above the ocean moving in a circular pattern. What causes the air to circulate like this?
What is difference in air temperature?
Water is polar molecule held together by covalent bonds between hydrogen and oxygen molecules. What does it mean for water to be polar?
What is having partial negative and positive charges?
What causes ice to melt when it is placed in room temperature water?
What is absorbing heat or thermal energy from the water that surrounds it?
Which greenhouse gas primarily serves as an amplifier to warming?
What is water vapor?
What type of material retains the most heat, contributing to urban heat islands?
What is metal, concrete, and asphalt?
What conditions are necessary for hurricane formation?
What is hot, moist air rising?
Why might bonds between freshwater molecules be stronger than bonds between saltwater molecules?
What is freshwater molecules are not disturbed by salt, thus increasing the strength of cohesion in freshwater.
When water freezes it ______________ causing ice to be less dense than water.
What is expands?
Rising CO2 levels will gradually cause ocean temperatures to rise. How will this affect marine organisms?
What is marine populations that rely on certain nutrients only found in colder waters will decrease?
How could a building primarily made out of concrete and brick increase it's albedo, and decrease it's heat island effect?
What is using solar panels, painting the building white, adding mirrors around the perimeter, and/or planting rooftop gardens?
The ocean affects coastal climates by _____________ heat in the summer and ________________ releasing heat in the winter due to its high heat capacity.
What is absorbs in the summer and releases in the winter?