Geography?
What is cartography?
Ninety degrees south is where you'll find this place where every direction is north.
What is the South Pole.
The dry side of a mountain range.
What is the leeward side of the mountain?
The kind of radiation that escapes from the earth at night, allowing it to cool.
This type of pressure system characterizes Southern California's summer...and might wear a Lei and have the munchies
What is a high pressure system - the "Hawaiian High"?
This is what becomes of a hypothesis that has been supported by repeated experimentation.
This nighttime show is caused by the earth's magnetic field is exciting the solar wind.
What is the Aurora Borealis or Northern Lights?
Love may be like Oxygen, but it's not the most common component of air...which is this gas instead.
What is nitrogen?
This portmanteau is used to describe the energy from the sun.
Hot dry winds that come out from a high pressure system over the Basin and Range bringing fire weather to Los Angeles
What are Santa Ana Winds?
These are the lines used to determine the angular distance from the Prime Meridian.
What are meridians or lines of longitude?
The rising and falling of the ocean against the beach is caused by the gravitational effects of what oversized block of cheese?
What is the moon?
You may not be particular about what causes you to cry, but in order for it to rain, you may need these pollutants in the air.
What are particulates?
This term is used to describe the reflectivity of various earth surfaces. Snow is high!
What is albedo?
This bratty child brings warmer water and lots of rainy weather to Southern California when he decides to arrive around Christmas about every 5 years.
What is El Nino?
An academic field that has no specific topic, but instead has a specific epistemology (way of knowing) and way of studying phenomena is not a subject but instead called this...much like a martial art.
What is a discipline?
The earth is closest to the sun during this month - when the earth is at a point in its orbit known as perihelion.
What is January?
The ozone layer which protects us from UV radiation was being destroyed by CFCs for many years. What element was the destructive C?
Clouds are well known for their storage of droplets of water, but they also are storing atomic bomb loads of what other major factor in weather?
What is energy?
Rightsy-tightsy, lefty-loosy, this clock direction characterizes the circulation of rising air masses over North America.
What is counter-clockwise?
Chorology is the study of space for geographers, but this is the study of time, of special interest to Historians.
What is chronology?
On this longest day of the year, the sun's ray are directly overhead at noon at this tropic...or latitude..
What is the Tropic of Cancer at 23 degrees north latitude.
Every kilometer you climb up a mountain, it gets colder by about 6 or 7 degrees. This chilling effect is known by this easy-to-forget moniker
What is the normal lapse rate? Did your memory lapse?
What is specific heat?
What is a Hadley Cell.