Way Back When
The study of relationships between human society and the physical environment
What is Geography?
The relationship between latitude and climate
What is distance from the equator means colder temperatures?
The length of Terrestrial Radiation's wavelength in relation to Solar Radiation
What is longer?
The atmospheric layer where the ozone layer can be found
What is the stratosphere?
The kind of weather associated with the ITCZ (Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone)
What are frequent storms and heavy rainfall?
The sphere of Physical Geography that includes all living organisms
What is the Biosphere?
The movement of Earth around the Sun
What is Revolution?
The difference between heat and temperature
What is
Heat is a measurment of actual energy while Temperature is measure of the movement of molecules
The direction that High-Pressure Systems spin in the Northern Hemisphere
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For 300 points, the year The Phantom Menace was released in theaters
What is clockwise?
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When was 1999?
Where the Ferrel Cell is found
Where is between 30° and 60° North and South?
The last step of the Scientific Method
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For 400 points, the number of characters who activated lightsabers in the Star Wars Original Trilogy (Episodes 4-6, A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi)
What is Theory Formation?
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4: Who are Luke Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Darth Vader, and Han Solo
Passive Sensors
What is "respond to external stimuli and record natural energy reflected or emitted from the Earth's surface?"
Energy transferred by direct contact
What is Conduction?
Three of the gases that make up the constant configuration in atmospheric composition
What are Nitrogen, Oxygen, Argon, Neon, Helium, and Krypton?
Rossby Waves
What are large-scale meanders (or wiggles) in high-altitude winds that play a significant role in shaping weather patterns?
Negative Feedback
What happens when the output of a system reduces or dampens the initial input, decreasing the magnitude of the perturbation?
The result of Earth rotating around its axis
What are daily patterns?
The amount of radiation hitting a surface that it reflects back
What is albedo?
The result of the Maritime Effect
Why do coastal areas experience far less temperature variability than inland areas?
The driver of the Ocean's surface currents
What is wind?
A system’s capacity to absorb disturbances and still maintain its fundamental structure, function, and processes
What is Resilience?
Radiation
What is the transmission of energy in the form of electromagnetic waves?
Convection
What is energy transferred by the mass motion of molecules?
The average adiabatic lapse rate in the Troposphere, or the average global rate of temperature change with elevation
What is 6.4 degrees Celsius per kilometer?
The reason upwelling is important in marine ecosystems
What is bringing nutrient-rich water to the surface?