Weather and Climate 1
What is Precipitation?
Precipitation is any liquid or frozen water that forms in the atmosphere and falls back to the Earth
What is Humidity
The amount of moisture in the air at a given temperature
In which direction does a stationary front move?
They don't.
Which clouds are grey, lumpy clouds, lower in the sky
stratocumulus
What front(s) causes clouds and rain to form?
all 4 of them
What are 4 elements of weather?
Wind, sunlight, cloud cover, temperature, atmospheric pressure, humidity, precipitation
How does altitude effect temperature?
It gets colder the higher you are in altitude.
What part of Earth receives the most solar radiation?
The Equator
What is latitude?
Imaginary parallel lines in distance from the equator
Describe a low pressure system? What happens?
Air rises up causing clouds and precipitation to occur
_____________ is the temporary state of the atmosphere over a short period of time.
Weather
_________ is the general state of the atmosphere in a place over a long period of time.
Climate
How does the ocean affect our climate?
carries warm and cool waters to help distribute heat around the globe.
What is altitude?
The height of an object above sea level.
Describe the prevailing westerlies.
Winds located betweenn 30 and 60 degrees latitude north and south of the equator. They blow from west to east
A student goes to the beach. She thinks that at night the sand will get cooler faster than the water. Is she right? Why?
She is right because water has a higher specific heat so it takes longer for water to heat up and cool down.
What are two properties of air masses?
Temperature and humidity
Why are polar regions colder than other regions of Earth?
They receive less solar energy per unit of surface area.
This layer of the earth's atmosphere burns up most meteors and asteroids before reaching the surface of the earth.
Mesosphere
Sea and Land breezes are caused because.....
the land heats and cools more quickly than the water
Explain the main difference between weather and climate
What are two factors affecting climate?
Latitude, altitude and distance from the sea.
Which part of the earth's atmosphere is where most weather happens?
Troposphere
What are the 5 climate zones?
Tropical, temperate, and polar, continental, mild
What is are the different layers of the Earth's atmosphere
Trophosphere, Stratosphere, Mesosphere, Thermosphere, Exosphere