These are the three ways that heat can travel from one object or location to another.
What is radiation, conduction, and convection?
100
A region's climate is determined by these factors.
What is the area's latitude, wind, topography, and ocean currents?
100
continuous flow of plasma (super-heated gases) from the sun
What is solar wind?
100
small organisms that float in the atmosphere
What are aeolian plankton?
200
Animals, bacteria, microorganisms, and plants need this for respiration.
What is oxygen?
200
This natural force cause low pressure areas and high pressure areas.
What are convection currents?
200
Tropical zones, temperate zones, and polar zones aare examples of these.
What are climate zones?
200
mixture of gases that surrounds the Earth
What is the atmosphere?
200
transfer of heat from one substance to another substance through direct contact
What is conduction?
300
This area in the atmosphere are where jet streams form. Just be glad you can get to Paris in 10 hours.
What is the tropopause?
300
This instrument indicates that the atmospheric pressure is falling and that a low pressure system is forming, strengthening, or approaching
What is a falling barometer?
300
The temperatures within marine climate zone don't vary as much because of this.
What is the ocean?
300
clouds stretched out in layers across the sky
What are stratus clouds?
300
the curving of moving objects from a straight path due to the Earth's rotation
What is the Coriolis effect?
400
In 1987, twenty-four countries signed this document that states that makes it illegal to use ozone-damaging chemicals.
What is the Montreal Protocol?
400
These are the two basic categories clouds are classified into today.
What is cumulus and stratus?
400
Changes of microclimates have occurred due to these in the atmosphere.
What is pollutants, ash, and dust?
400
periodic changes in the location of warm and cold surface waters in the Pacific Ocean
What is El Niño?
400
the amount of water vapor in the air compared with the amount that the air can hold at that particular temperature
What is relative humidity?
500
These events are caused by high-speed electrons and protons from the Sun trapped in the Van Allen radiation belt and channeled by the magnetosphere toward polar regions. These charged particles enter the atmosphere and collide with air molecules, giving off light.
What are auroras?
500
Local winds and global winds are caused by this common problem.
What is the unequal heating of the atmosphere?
500
The temperature contrast between the cold air moving over the Great Lakes and the warmer water temperature in the Great Lakes often causes heavy snow squalls downward of the Great Lakes is this.
What is lake effect snow?
500
small regions with their own climactic conditions
What are microclimates?
500
human-made compounds consisting of carbon, hydrogen, chlorine, and fluorine, once widely used as aerosol propellants