This Phase
What is new Moon
This pull is responsible for the tides
What is the gravitational pull of the moon?
day to day conditions of the atmosphere, temp, precip, and other factors
What is weather
A body of air that is about the same temp and moisture level throughout
What is an air mass
The day of the year in the northern hemisphere when the sun is the farthest north from the equator.
What is the summer solstice?
Ultimate source for heat
What is the sun?
At 12:00 noon shadows will be longer in the summer or winter
What is in the winter?
As the amount of Carbon Dioxide in the atmosphere rises the temperature on earth
Rises or Falls
Rises
What is this phase of the moon
Waning Gibbous
When the tidal range is highest. The greatest distance between high and low tide
What is a spring tide?
Average weather patterns over a long period of time
What is climate
Condition of the atmosphere where pressure is above average range
What is high pressure
Day of the year in the northern hemisphere when the sun is the farthest south from the equator
What is the winter solstice?
Bonus. What is this day in the southern hemisphere?
The use of this kind of fuel causes more global warming
What is fossil fuel
Warming effect of the earth that results when solar radiation is trapped by the atmosphere
What is the greenhouse effect?
what evidence do they look too to make inferences about past climate data on earth
Ice core in Antarctica
Waxing or Waning
What is Waxing
The difference between high and low tide is the least
What is a Neap Tide
The pushing force of the atmosphere
What is barometric pressure?
Condition of the atmosphere when the pressure is below average range
What is low pressure
sections of the year with specific weather patterns and daylight hours resulting from the earth's and the sun's position in relation to each other
What are seasons?
Gases in the earth's atmosphere that trap heat near the surface
greenhouse gases
which season
What is winter
What causes the high rate of carbon dioxide on earth
burning fossil fuels
The moon phases of a spring tide
What is full or new moon?
The path that earth travels around the sun
What is orbit
This is any form of water that falls from clouds and reaches Earth
What is precipitation?
The amount of moisture in the air
What is humidity?
The word used to describe the day when night and daylight are the same amounts of time
What is equinox?
Where fossil fuels were created millions of years ago.
What are in buried swamps and oceans?
These are the three ways energy moves from the sun to earth through the atmosphere
Conduction touching
Convection through currents of moisture and
Radiation Through waves from the sun
What kind of front is this
What is a cold front
The moon phases of a neap tide
Crescent moons Waxing or Waning
To move around a central axis
What is rotate?
This type of air holds more moisture
warm cool
What is warm
These are the two different types of air masses
What are continental and maritime
over land over water
The days of the year when the sun is farthest north or south of the equator
What is the solstice?
This is the reason why it is cooler next to the ocean in the summer and warmer next to the ocean in the winter than inland 100 kilometers
What is water takes longer to heat up (cooler summer) and longer to cool off (warmer in the winter
The heat required to raise the temperature of one gram of water one degree Celcius
What is specific heat
This kind of front air masses meet and stop moving forward
Stationary front
This is when the light part of the moon is on the right side and gets bigger each day.
What is a waxing moon?
This is what it is called when the moon earth and sun are in a direct line and the moon blocks the rays from the sun from reaching the earth for a short period of time
What is a solar eclipse?
Four factors that create weather conditions
What are temperature, humidity, air pressure, and landforms?
Air masses start over these two places and then move north or south.
What are over the equator , tropical
and over the poles (polar)?
this the the degree of the earth's tilt
What is 23 degrees
Four main gases that make up most of the earth's atmosphere
Nitrogen, oxygen, carbon, and Other gases
The movement of energy from a warmer object to a cooler object
What is heat transfer?
What weather conditions may happen when at the line of the cold front and warm front when a cold front moves in
storms
This is when the earth is located in between the sun and the moon causing the moon to go black for a short period of time
What is a lunar eclipse?
When 3/4 of the moon is lit what do we call that moon
What is a gibbous moon?
What happens to the air (raise or lower)when the atmosphere is heated
What is Air rises to cause low pressure at the surface?
Wind moves in this direction
What is from areas of High pressure to areas of Low pressure
Season in the southern hemisphere in left most pic
What is winter?
Major greenhouse gases
Carbon dioxide. methane, nitrous oxide and fluorinated gases
Shadows are longer in the winter because...
What is the sun is lower in the sky. Less direct rays of the sun
Keelings Curve looks at the carbon cycle of the earth
What does it show
That there is a yearly cycle of the rise and fall of the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere that correlates with the number of leaves on the trees (summer and winter)...but also that these are rising as a whole over the last 60 years because there is more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere than ever before