Oceanography & Climate
Short-term atmospheric conditions (days/weeks).
What is weather?
Where two air masses meet (often causes weather changes).
What is a front?
The three main gases in Earth's atmosphere.
What are nitrogen, oxygen, and carbon dioxide?
The study of Earth's oceans, floor, movements, and organisms.
What is oceanography?
Super-heated air masses bumping cause this sound.
What is thunder?
Long-term atmospheric patterns over years.
What is climate?
Amount of water vapor in the air.
What is humidity?
Boundary between the homosphere and heterosphere.
What is the turbopause?
Regular and predictable ocean water movement due to the moon's gravitational pull.
What are tides?
This builds up on ice particles as they collide in the cloud. (It cab be shocking!)
What is static electricity?
Cold deep water rises, bringing nutrients.
What is upwelling?
When air can't hold more moisture (leads to condensation or precipitation).
What is saturated or saturation?
The barrier between the mesosphere and thermosphere.
What is the mesopause?
Massive wave sometimes formed by an underwater earthquake or volcanic eruption.
What is a tsunami?
A difference (+ or -) is created between the cloud and ground.
What is a charge?
Tree rings & ice cores may be used to study this.
What is Earth's past climate?
Italian scientist who invented an early thermometer.
Who is Galileo?
Two major divisions of the two layer model of the atmosphere.
What are the homosphere and heterosphere?
When living organisms produce their own light.
What is bioluminescence?
A stream of these negatively charged particles called electrons zigzags down to form a strike.
What is lightning?
Tallest mountain (~33,500 ft from base); 19,000 of it is below the ocean surface.
What is Mauna Kea?
Scientist who studied air pressure and invented an early calculating machine?
Who is Blaise Pascal?
Gaseous layer that supports life, protects from solar radiation, regulates temps, and moves water.
What is the atmosphere?
Moisture falling from the atmosphere (rain, snow, sleet, hail).
What is precipitation?
A storm is within 10 miles of where you are.
What is go inside; seek shelter?