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Earth and it's SYSTEMs
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Define the Term: Ocean Heating
Ocean Heating: The water in the earth's seas and oceans gets warmer because it soaks up extra heat from the air
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Define Air Pressure
Air Pressure is the weight of invisible air molecules pressing down on everything on Earth.
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What is Water Vapor?
Water Vapor is water that has turned into an invisible gas floating all around us in the air
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What is the word that describes all the connected parts of the earth that interact with one another?
Earth System
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What is an interaction?
When parts of a system affect one another
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What is the term that describes the phenomenon where the sun warms up some parts of the earth more than other parts?
Unequal Heating
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What's the term that we use to describe a situation where we have a giant bubble of heavy air that slowly sinks down toward the ground and brings clear, sunny skies?
High Pressure
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What is an Ocean Current?
An ocean current is a continuous, directed river of water moving through the ocean.
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What is a system?
A system is all of the parts that work together and affect one another.
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What is the name for the change in state that happens when liquid water changes into water vapor?
Evaporation.
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What is Thermal Energy?
Thermal Energy is the energy that comes from the tiny, moving pieces of matter inside an object.
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What is the term we use to describe an area where the air is lighter and warmer causing it to rise up into the sky and bring clouds, wind, and rain?
Low Pressure
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What is the term that we use to describe a giant, continuous stream of water that flows like a river through the top layer of the ocean?
Surface Current
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What is the name of the solid parts of the earth, including rocks, soil, and land?
Geosphere
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What is it called when water vapor changes into liquid water?
Condensation
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What is climate?
The usual pattern of weather in a place over a very long time, usually 30 years of more
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What is the Coriolis effect?
A curving or deflection of the path of objects, wind, and water traveling long distances over the earth, caused by the rotation of the planet
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What is the name of the term that described the natural ocean process where strong winds push warm surface water away from a coast, allowing deep, cold, and nutrient-filled water to rise up and replace it?
Upwelling
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What is the Biosphere?
All living things on earth.
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What are 4 types of precipitation?
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What is weather?
What the air and sky are like outside right now
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What is the term that we use to describe the way heat moves through liquids and gasses when warm parts rise and cool parts sink?
Convection
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What is the word that we use to describe the amount of invisible water gas, called water vapor, mixed into the air around us?
Humidity
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What is a Drought?
A long period with much less available water than usual
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What is the term for water the flows over the Earth's surface?
Runoff
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What is the difference between weather and climate?
Weather is what is happening right now and climate is over a long period (30 years of longer)
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What is the name for the layers of gasses surrounding the earth?
The Atmosphere
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What is the Hydrosphere?
All of the Earth's water
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What is the word that describes the situation where water covers land that is normally dry?
Flood
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What is the name of the water stored beneath the earth's surface?
Groundwater
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What is an El Nino?
A giant weather pattern in the Pacific Ocean that changes weather all over the plane.
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Changes in ocean temperature can alter what?
Changes in ocean temperature can alter evaporation, atmospheric pressure, wind, clouds, and precipitation
700
Daily Double!
Draw a picture of the water cycle.
Best picture with labels gets double points!
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How is El Nino likely to affect the weather in Albuquerque this winter?
Albuquerque will likely have more precipitation than usual this winter.
700
What is the name of the process of water soaking into the ground?
Infiltration