Vocabulary
The layer of the atmosphere closest to the Earth where weather patterns
What is troposhere?
The location that receives more sun: Mexico or Canada. Explain.
What is Mexico?
Areas closest to the equator get more energy from the sun.
Describe evaporation
What is energy from the sun heating up liquid water, it will rise and heat up, turning into water vapor in the air?
It an air parcel is warmer than the surrounding air, it will...
What is rise in the troposhere?
True or False: Warmer currents transfer energy to cooler air, and warmer air transfers energy to cooler currents.
True
The imaginary line that divides Earth into northern and southern hemispheres
What is the equator?
The type of a current that would come from the North Pole.
What is a cold current, carrying less energy to the places it passes?
Which statement best describes one way that energy transfers through the water cycle?
a. energy from the clouds causes shadows, which decreases runoff.
b. energy from the sun causes the water in a river to evaporate.
c. energy from precipitation causes water to freeze on mountaintops.
What is B. energy from the sun causes the water in a river to evaporate?
Air moving from areas of ___________ to ___________ is called wind.
What is high pressure to low pressure?
True or False: Energy from the sun is transferred to the Earth's surface, and remains in the surface.
False, some of that energy is transferred to the air above the surface.
Moves in one direction and are strong enough to push ocean currents
What are prevailing winds?
If two countries are at the same latitude, the two factors that determine the temperature of the ocean currents nearby.
What are the prevailing winds and location of continents?
The factors of a very very severe rainstorm.
What is a large amount of surface water, hot temperatures, and strong winds?
When liquid water becomes warmer, it can do this.
What is evaporate and become water vapor in the air?
True or false: The troposphere is coldest at the surface, and warmest at its highest point.
False
An amount of air that moves as a unit
What is an air parcel?
Energy transfers from ______ to ______.
What is warmer substances to cooler substances?
The more an air parcel ______ energy and cools, the more rainfall can happen.
What is loses?
__________ and ____________ determine the direction of ocean currents.
prevailing winds, position of continents
True or False: As an air parcel rises, energy transfers from the surrounding air to the air parcel.
False
The process by which a gas changes into a liquid
What is condensation?
Near Australia, there is a cold current. Energy transfers between the ocean and air temperature from ____
a. air to ocean
b. ocean to air
What is A. air to ocean?
What happens to a warm air parcel.
What is the air parcel rises into the troposphere, losing energy until it reaches equilibrium with the surrounding air?
When an ocean current comes from the equator, it brings ______________ to the places it passes, and that is ________ than the nearby air.
What is warmer-than-expected water, warmer?
True or false: When water vapor cools and condenses into liquid water, it is called precipitation.
False, condensation