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What is the study of climate?
Climatology
How are weather and climate different?
Weather is the condition of the troposphere right now.
Climate is based off of atmospheric conditions of at least 30 years. It is the prevailing pattern of weather
A cat wants to sit on a rug getting the best solar angle in Texas. What day and time should that cat sit on the rug?
June 21st at noon
What happens to materials after they are removed from a source of radiant energy?
They lose kinetic energy (heat) to the environment by radiating it out
How old was Martin Luther King Jr. when he entered college?
15
At what latitude would you find a high solar angle all year?
The equator
How does climate change as you go north of the equator?
It gets colder
Ouch! The cat stepped on the sand and burned his little paws. Quickly Carl (the cat) ran to the water which was much cooler.
What is the reason for the change in temperature of the materials?
Differential heating
What season is it in Australia right now?
SUMMER
What is a group of camels called?
A caravan!
If you looked at the solar angle in Keller at noon throughout the year, would it stay the same?
No
What is radiation?
energy that travels by rays or waves
Carl the cat absorbed a lot of radiant energy. If he behaved like a particle when it absorbed radiant energy, what changes would we experience in Carl?
He would increase in kinetic energy (move faster), get hot, and expand
Name three things that can give off radiant energy.
Sun, lightbulb, heat lamp, fire, microwave, baked potato (if you're close but not touching it and feel heat), etc.
What is a group of ferrets called?
A business!
Which of these would be an example of radiation:
A) You touch a heating coil (stovetop) and you burn your hand
B) You move your chair away from the fire pit because your face is getting too hot
C) Hot water rises in the ocean due to an underwater volcano
B
Why do we have seasons?
The tilt of Earth's axis
Carl is outside on a very hot day (look at that high solar angle!).
He walks across three surfaces. Which would be the coolest on those cute little paws?
a) A sand volleyball pit
b) dry packed soil
c) freshly watered garden patch of soil
c
Define solar angle
The angle at which solar energy strikes a surface
What do you call a group of parrots?
A pandemonium!
What season in the Northern Hemisphere is the Earth closest to the Sun?
Winter
What are three things that could affect solar angle?
latitude, time of day, time of year
Carl wants to know why the Sun feels the warmest in the middle of the day. Tell him!
The solar angle is the highest at noon.
Give an example of real world differential heating.
when two different earth materials are side by side and heat up differently in the same solar energy
beach (sand and water)
Chicago (all the concrete next to a lake)
etc.
What do you call a group of jaguars?
A shadow!