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
Two conditions required for cloud formation.
What is the cooling of air and the presence of particles?
100
Rocks make are part of this sphere of earth.
What is geosphere?
200
The process by which gases hold heat in the
What is greenhouse effect?
200
The formula for density.
What is density = mass/volume?
200
The kind of weather a continental 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 earth's system.
What is heat from the sun?
300
Wavelengths that are a little bit shorter than visible light.
What is ultraviolet light?
300
Climate zones lying between 23.5 degrees and 66.5 degrees north and south latitude.
What is the temperate zones?
300
Isobars join places on a map that have the same _______.
What is air pressure?
300
The cause of a rush of water onshore.
What is storm surge?
400
Water vapor, carbon dioxide, and methane.
What is greenhouse gases?
400
Sea and Land Breezes over a large region that change direction with the seasons are called.
What is monsoon?
400
Cold, dry air affecting the Northern U.S. in winter often comes from this type of air mass.
What is continental polar?
400
Most of the energy travels to Earth from the sun by this.
What is radiation?
500
The reason why water heats more slowly than land.
More energy is required to heat water than is needed to heat land.
500
Local winds differ frmo 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
The type of energy that causes a sunburn.
What is ultraviolet radiation?
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