Watersheds
This is the area in which all precipitation collects in a given body of water
What is a watershed?
This is a measurement of how north or south of the equator a location is
What is Latitude?
The movement of the ocean is caused by this.
What is uneven heating/changes in density?
Burning these produce atmospheric carbon.
What are fossil fuels?
The definition of albedo.
When water is not absorbed into the ground, it becomes this, and moves into the nearest body of water.
What is Runoff?
This is the climate zone between 30 and 60 degrees latitude
What is Temperate Zone?
The destination of a warm current will have its climate become this.
What is warmer and milder?
CO2 and Methane are examples of this.
What are greenhouse gasses?
These types of surfaces are the most reflective.
What is light-colored? (clouds, ice)
Excess nitrogen in estuaries can result in this negative consequence.
What is algae blooms/eutrophication?
The Tropical Zone is the most mild zone, and can be found between these latitudes.
Stronger trade winds and warmer ocean surface temperatures result from this seasonal change.
What is El Nino?
Long-wave radiation does this when it collides with a greenhouse gas, becoming trapped in the Earth as heat.
What is reflected?
This is the level of albedo for surfaces that absorb a lot of light.
What is low?
Eutrophication results in the depletion of this element in the afflicted body of water
What is Oxygen?
This effect is the reason hurricanes cannot cross the equator.
What is Coriolis?
The lifting of nutrients to the ocean's surface is caused by this.
What is upwelling?
This radiation emitted by the sun, and is either reflected back into space or absorbed by the Earth as heat.
What is short-wave radiation?
This lowers global albedo, which in turn raises temperature.
What is high temperature?
This type of Best Management Practice reduces the amount of soil erosion caused by farmland
What is No-till farming?
Winds at 38 degrees North move in this direction.
What is from west to east?
This is when the stratification of the ocean becomes significantly more sloped, and global wind direction can potentially reverse.
What is La Nina?
If Earth's global temperature is rising, this means the amount of long-wave emitted is this compared to the amount of radiation absorbed.
What is less than?
The definition of positive feedback loop.
What is a process where the output increases the input, and the effect never diminishes?