The Earth Spheres
The sphere of Earth that contains all ice, but not liquid water.
When acid rain works away at a limestone, this type of weathering occurs.
What is chemical weathering.
The day to day status of the atmosphere.
What is weather?
This is the movement of the atmosphere from one location to another.
What is wind?
The type of heat transfer that occurs when you touch a hot stove.
What is conduction?
The Earth spheres that interact when a puddle evaporates on a sunny day.
What are the hydrosphere and atmosphere?
The landform that occurs when a river empties into a large body of water, such as the ocean or a lake. The slowing water causes deposition to occur, creating multiple water channels with land in between.
What is a delta?
This requires at least 30 years of data to establish for a location.
What is climate?
The name of the ocean current that flows by Florida, bringing warm temperatures up from the equator.
What is the Gulf Stream?
The type of heat transfer that occurs when the sun's electromagnetic energy transfers to heat energy when it reaches Earth.
What is radiation?
The Earth spheres that interact when a tree is stabilized by its roots digging deep into the soil.
What are the biosphere and geosphere?
The landform that forms when limestone is eroded by chemical weathering, forming a cave, which eventually collapses.
What is a sinkhole?
A large body of air that is the same temperature (tropical/polar) and the same humidity (continental/maritime) throughout.
The narrow band of fast moving air that can affect local weather patterns by bringing cool air down from the poles and warm air up from the equator.
The measure of the average kinetic energy of particles in a substance.
What is temperature?
The layer of the atmosphere that contains the majority of the air in the atmosphere. All weather occurs here.
What is the troposphere?
The name of the process that occurs when metal rusts.
The water cycle process that involves plants releasing water into the atmosphere.
What is transpiration?
This type of wind occurs when the ocean is warmer than the land.
What is a land breeze?
The type of heat transfer that occurs when the air heated by a candle rises.
What is convection.
The layer of the atmosphere that contains the ozone layer.
What is the stratosphere?
The name of the process that occurs when rocks are weathered down by crashing into other rocks/sand.
What is abrasion?
This type of front occurs when a cold front overtakes a warm front, causing it to rise between two colder fronts.
What is an occluded front?
This is how ocean currents affect air masses. (2 ways)
How is by absorbing heat for cold currents and by releasing heat for warm currents, as well as by evaporating water vapor to affect humidity.
The measure of how quickly an object absorbs and releases heat.
What is specific heat?