Ocean waste
What are microplastics?
Small pieces of plastic degraded from plastic due to heat from the sun
Geogrphical circumstances in a specific place at a specific time.
What is weather?
a sudden change in climate
what is climate change?
Front that has rain, violent winds, storms, hail, tornados, and decrease of temperature and humidity
what is a cold front?
Name 1 hurricane
Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane Floyd, etc
Does ocean waste affect human health?
yes
Weather patterns measured over a long period of time.
What is climate?
1 example of a natural event
Pompeii volcano
meteor that killed dinosaurs
Front that has calm and light rain, higher temperatures, and higher humidity
What is a warm front?
are all tropical storms called hurricanes
No, it depends on where they start and make landfall
Which ocean doesn't have a garbage patch?
Artic ocean
What is an isobar?
Lines connecting points of equal pressure
1 greenhouse gas
CO2
carbon monoxide
Front with long periods of rain and storms for several days.
What is a stationary front?
where tropical cyclones make landfall
what is east africa/austraila?
What's a Gyre?
a circular ocean current formed by the rotations of earth
Has cool air, clear and dry, sunny
What is a high pressure zone?
Help keep the earth at a habitable temperature but too much can cause global warming.
What are Greenhouse Gases?
front that a cold front took over a warm one.
What is an occulded front?
where typhoons make landfall
what is east asia?
How many garbage patches are there?
6
Cloudly, windy, rainy, humid and higher tempertaures
What is a low pressure zone?
name 3 specific natural impacts
greenhouse gases
meteor impacts
volcanic eruptions
ocean currents
Name 3 fronts
Cold, warm, stationary, occulded
What is north/south america?