Oceans
Atmosphere
Wind
Weather and Climate
Weather and Climate Cont.
100
Factor most responsible for the ocean tides.
What is the moon's gravitational pull?
100
The layer in which most weather occurs
What is the Troposphere?
100
Winds move from areas of ___________ to areas of __________.
What is high to low pressure?
100
A hurricane becomes more powerful by increased water evaporation from
What is the oceans?
100
Typical United States weather patterns show the continental polar air mass moving south toward the Gulf of America. Why does this air mass movement happen?
What is The polar air mass moves south to replace the rising maritime tropical air mass?
200
Sequence the seafloor features as you move from the shoreline outward into the ocean.
What is continental shelf - continental slope - continental rise - abyssal plain - mid-ocean ridge?
200
The temperature _________ as you go higher up in the Troposphere
What is Gets colder?
200
Winds curve as they blow due to
What is the rotation of the Earth? or the Coriolis effect.
200
Which type of air mass would be described as "warm and humid"?
What is maritime tropical (mT)?
200
In the United States, cold air masses generally tend to move toward the:
What is the equator?
300
Feature of the ocean floor that could be described as an underwater mountain range
What is a mid-ocean ridge?
300
The coldest layer of the atmosphere.
What is the Mesosphere?
300
During the day, the Sun heats the ocean and the ocean stores this energy. During the evening the land cools and the ocean transfers the energy back to the air. As a result you get a cool breeze. Which direction would the breeze blow at night?
What is from the land to the sea?
300
When a cold air mass and a warm air mass meet and stall without moving, it forms a
What is a stationary front?
300
Land heats (faster/slower) than ocean water.
What is faster?
400
Neap tides, relatively weak tides, occur when the Moon is
What is at a 90-degree angle to the sun and earth? or first-quarter and third-quarter moon.
400
The reason the Exosphere is sometimes not considered a "true" layer of the atmosphere
What is because there are few air particles there?
400
What causes land breeze and sea breeze?
What is The differential heating of land and sea by the Sun results in the movement of air?
400
Which type of front typically brings light, steady precipitation and tends to move slowly?
What is a warm front?
400
This large storm forms over warm ocean water, has a calm eye at its center, and can cause widespread damage when it makes landfall.
What is a hurricane?
500
Deep water currents are caused by differences in ___________ and ______________, not by winds.
What is temperature and salinity?
500
The two gasses that make up most of the atmosphere
What is Nitrogen and Oxygen?
500
This global wind belt near the equator is characterized by calm winds and rising air that produce heavy rainfall.
What is the doldrums?
500
What is an occluded front?
500
A rapidly rotating storm with very low pressure, strong winds, and a funnel cloud that touches the ground.
What is a tornado?