El Nino & La Nina
This is what causes the trade winds.
The Coriolis Effect.
What is climate?
This is how much the Earth has heated up over the last 100 years.
What is one degree Celsius?
What is a barometer.
The transfer of heat through matter by molecular activity.
What is Conduction
This is what causes El Nino & La Nina
What are Trade winds?
The daily state of the atmosphere
What is weather?
Carbon Dioxide, methane & nitrous oxide
What are greenhouse gasses?
When a solid skips the liquid phase and goes directly to a gas.
What is sublimation
Solar energy that reaches Earth. Does not need a medium to travel.
What is radiation?
Ocean warming that affect the eastern tropical Pacific
The most important ingredient of Climate and Weather.
What is the sun?
The natural warming of both Earth's lower atmosphere and Earth's surface.
What is the Greenhouse effect?
Relative humidity is commonly measured by this instrument.
What is a hygrometer.
The transfer of heat by mass movement or circulation within a substance.
What is convection?
When surface temperatures are colder in the Pacific Ocean resulting in greater precipitation in North America.
What is La Nina?
The second most important part of our planet that affects weather.
What is water?
What are volcanic eruptions?
Lines that connect points that have the same temperature.
What are isotherms?
The layer of atmosphere closest to Earth's surface.
What is the troposphere?
What is the recurring climate pattern involving changes in the temperature of waters in the Pacific Ocean.
What is ENSO - El Nino Souther Oscillation
This is what causes our seasons.
What is the tilt of the earth?
The amount of radiation can change global climates.
What is solar radiation?
The fraction of total radiation that is reflected by any surface.
What is Albedo?
What is the greenhouse effect?