Hydrosphere
The amount of empty space within a material allowing it to hold water.
Porosity
Cold, nutrient rich ocean water rising
upwelling
Describes short term changes in the atmosphere.
Weather
Sink or Source?
Photosynthesis
Sink
The axial tilt of the planet
Obliquity
The release of water from plants
Transpiration
Above average sea surface temperatures causing extreme weather events
El Nino
Describes what the weather is like over a long period of time in a specific area.
Climate
Sink or Source?
Combustion
Source
Climate proxy used to identify periods of drought that occured in the past 50 years.
Tree Rings
Rain, snow, sleet and hail are all forms of what?
Precipitation
A continuous stream of underwater currents which circumnavigates the globe
Global Conveyor Belt
What area of Earth recieves the largest input of solar energy?
Equator
How much light a surface reflects
albedo
Slow change in the direction of Earth's rotational axis (wobble)
Precession
process when water vapor turns into clouds
condensation
Driving force that creates movement of surface ocean currents
Convection Currents in the atmosphere/Wind
winds blowing steadily towards the equator from the northeast.
Trade winds
A warming of Earth’s surface and troposphere caused by the presence of certain gases in the air.
Greenhouse effect
Climate proxy that helps provide clues about the amount of carbon dioxide gases in the atmosphere of Earth's past
Ice cores
Horizontal movement of water vapor from one cloud to the next
Advection
A large system of surface ocean currents rotating in a circular fashion
Gyres
Descending cool, dry air coming together creates what kind of pressure system?
High Pressure System
Infared radiation is also know as..
Heat energy
The shape of Earth's orbit
Eccentricity