Sun & Heat
This type of radiation carries the Sun’s energy to Earth.
What is electromagnetic radiation?
The Gulf Stream starts in this gulf.
What is the Gulf of Mexico?
Wind is the movement of air parallel to this.
What is Earth’s surface?
Giant convection currents are created because of the temperature difference between the equator and these places.
What are the poles?
A current is a large stream of moving water traveling from one place to another.
What is a current?
The ozone layer is found in this layer of Earth’s atmosphere.
What is the stratosphere?
The Gulf Stream crosses this ocean.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
This tool is used to measure wind direction.
What is a wind vane?
Earth’s rotation causes winds to curve in an effect with this name.
What is the Coriolis Effect?
Continents act like giant walls and force currents to do this.
What is turn?
These two gases are increasing in Earth’s atmosphere because of human activity.
What are carbon dioxide and methane?
Warm currents usually cause this kind of climate.
What is warm and wet?
This tool measures wind speed.
What is an anemometer?
Earth rotates from this direction to this direction.
What is west to east?
In the Northern Hemisphere, currents curve to the right because of this effect.
This is the average energy of motion of particles in a substance.
What is temperature?
Cold currents usually cause this kind of climate.
What is cool and dry?
During the daytime, this surface heats up faster: sand or ocean water?
What is sand?
Global wind belts move this away from the equator toward the poles.
What is energy (or heat)?
Surface currents and global winds help redistribute this around Earth.
What is heat energy?
This is the total energy of motion of all particles in a substance.
What is thermal energy?
The Gulf Stream becomes this current after crossing the Atlantic Ocean.
What is the North Atlantic Drift?
When air gets hot, it expands and does this.
What is rises?
The strongest heating from the Sun happens near this part of Earth.
What is the equator?
Water with more salt is more this.
What is dense (or heavier)?