Climate Interactions
Weather Factors
Weather Patterns
Anything goes
100
This means that hurricane conditions are expected within the next 24 hours!
What is a hurricane warning?
100
The total energy of motion in the particles of a substance.
What is thermal energy?
100
The two conditions required for cloud formation.
What is cooling of the air and the presence of particles?
100
Rocks are part of this sphere of earth.
What is the geosphere?
200
Why does water heat more slowly than land?
More energy is required to heat water than is needed to heat land.
200
The formula for density.
What is density = mass/volume?
200
The kind of weather a contintental tropical air mass that formed over northern Mexico would bring to the southwestern U.S.
What is hot and dry?
200
The main source of energy that drives the Earth system.
What is heat from the sun?
300
This has wavelengths shorter than visible light.
What is ultraviolet light?
300
The CLIMATE zones lying between 23.5 degrees and 66.5 degrees north and south latitude.
What is the temperate zones?
300
Places with the same ________ are joined on maps by Isobars.
What is air pressure?
300
This can cause a rush of water onshore.
What is a storm surge?
400
Water vapor, carbon dioxide, and methane.
What are greenhouse gases?
400
Sea and land breezes over a large region that change direction with the seasons.
What is a monsoon?
400
Cold, dry air affecting the northern U.S. in winter often comes fromt this type of air mass.
What is continental polar?
400
This is how most of the energy from the sun travels to Earth's surface.
What is radiation?
500
List the layers of atmospher from earth to space.
What is troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, and thermosphere?
500
Local winds differ from global winds because of this.
What is the unequal heating within a small area?
500
This is indicated by the small lines at the end of the shaft that represents wind direction.
What is wind speed?
500
This type of energy causes sunburn.
What is ultraviolet radiation?
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