Weather & Climate
The conditions of the atmosphere in a particular place at a particular time.
What is weather?
This is moving air thats heated and transferred from the sun to the Earth's surface and then from the surface to the air above it.
What is Wind?
This moves from high-pressure to low-pressure areas.
What is wind?
This is noted with a blue "H" and it has higher pressure at its center.
What is a high pressure system?
These are scientists that use powerful supercomputers to gather information about weather conditions around the planet.
What are meteorologists?
An average of the weather in a location over 30 years or more.
What is climate?
This is transferred through convection currents in the air.
What is heat?
Wind is also the primary influencer of these.
What are surface ocean currents?
This is notes with a red "L" and has a lower pressure at its center than the areas around it.
What is a low pressure system?
These use temperature sensors, wind gauges, and rain collectors to gather data about the weather.
What are weather stations?
The main elements of weather and climate on Earth.
What are an Uneven heating of Earth's surfaces & the Water Cycle?
These two interact to create the water cycle.
What are the atmosphere and Hydrosphere?
The curved air paths caused by the Earth's rotation on its axis.
What is the Coriolis Effect?
The winds in a high pressure system blow in this direction in the northern hemisphere.
What is clockwise?
Weather channels and meteorologists use these to perform millions of calculations every second to predict the weather.
What are supercomputers?
This always seek equilibrium.
What is Heat?
When heated, these spread out into the atmosphere causing water vapor to cool off.
What are molecules?
These move with global wind patterns and redistribute heat around the planet.
What are air masses?
The winds in the southern hemisphere blow in this direction because of Earth's rotation and the Coriolis effect.
What is counterclockwise?
This is how many changes need to occur for dramatic effects on Earth's weather to take place.
What is one?
This works by moving Warmer, less-dense fluid rises, allowing cooler, denser fluid to take its place.
What is Convection?
These are the most important parts of the Water Cycle.
What are evaporation, condensation and precipitation?
This passes over a location and changes the weather in that location.
What is a front?
In what format are you best able to see high and low pressure systems.
What are weather maps?
Forecasters need to predict these 4 things exactly.
What is how the sun will heat each part of the Earth, how the heat will influence the water cycle, how differences in air pressure will affect wind patterns, and how the planet's rotation will affect the movement of air and water?