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This measures angular distance East and West of the Prime Meridian
What is longitude? or longitudinal degrees?
This is when Earth spins on its axis.
What is rotation?
This parallel receives the direct rays of the Sun on the March Equinox.
What is the Equator?
This is the most abundant gas in our atmosphere.
What is NO2?
Clouds have this effect on temperature during the day.
What is cooling?
This is the greatest angular distance away from the Equator, in degrees.
What is 90° N and S?
This is the degrees that Earth's axis is tilted.
What is 23.5° from the perpendicular to the plane of the ecliptic?
This is the parallel and latitude where the subsolar point is on Dec 22.
What is the Tropic of Capricorn at 23.5°S?
This is the third most abundant gas in our atmosphere.
What is Argon?
These are the two most abundant greenhouse gases in our atmosphere.
What are H2O and CO2?
The International Date Line is found at approximately how many degrees longitude?
What is 180° longitude?
This refers to the 365 day orbit of the Earth around the Sun.
What is Revolution?
At 38° N, we receive the subsolar point this many times.
What is zero?
This gas is responsible for heating the stratosphere.
What is O3?
The continental effect has this effect on temperature.
What is 'extremes' in temperature?
You were at 5°S, 10°E, and moved 25° north and 25° west of that location. This is your new geographic coordinates.
What is 20°N, 15°W?
The fact that Earth's axis is always pointing in the same direction.
What is parallelism?
This parallel marks the latitude on the December solstice where poleward there is 24 hours of darkness.
What is the Arctic Circle? 66.5°N?
This layer has decreasing temperature with increasing altitude, and begins at the stratopause.
What is the mesosphere?
In general, as you go up in elevation temperature does this (increases/decreases).
decreases
The fluctuation in insolation that occurs on Earth is determined by these two factors.
1. What is the angle of the Sun in the sky (intensity of solar radiation / distance or proximity to subsolar point)?
2. What is daylength (hours of daylight)?
What are the correct words in parentheses that make this statement true?
In February, the subsolar point is moving (north/south) in the (Southern/Northern) Hemisphere.
In February, the subsolar point is moving (north) in the (Southern) Hemisphere.
This happens to blue wavelengths when they enter Earth's atmosphere.
What is scattering?
The specific heat of water is (higher/lower) than that of soil.
higher