Winds
Causes wind in the Northern Hemisphere to spin counterclockwise.
What is the Coriolis Effect?
Currents driven by wind.
What are surface currents?
The amount of salt dissolved in water.
What is salinity?
The border between two air masses.
What is a front?
When water gains energy and turns from liquid to vapor.
What is evaporation?
Blows from West to East at over 100 mph.
The warm water current off the East coast of Florida.
What is the Gulf Stream?
This type of water usually hold more salt due to increased kinetic energy.
What is warm water?
Warm air rises, allowing cooler air to rush in creating a counterclockwise rotation in this type of pressure system.
What is low pressure?
When water vapor cools back into a liquid.
What is condensation?
A dry region on the leeward side of a mountain.
What is a rain shadow?
Currents driven by differences in the density of sea water.
What are deep water currents?
The 2 water cycle mechanisms that have the most impact on salinity.
What are evaporation and precipitation?
The force that forces spinning air upwards to create a tornado.
What is updraft?
When water seeps into the ground through cracks in rocks or spaces in soil.
What is infiltration or percolation?
The direction the wind blows at the poles.
What is from East to West?
A spiraling surface current.
What is a gyre?
This ocean has the highest salinity on Earth.
What is the Atlantic ocean?
The minimum ocean temperature for the formation of a hurricane. (Remember, we're scientists)
What is 26 degrees Celsius?
The two driving forces of the water cycle.
What are the Sun and gravity?
A breeze created at night when the water is warmer than the land.
What is a Land Breeze?
A deep water ocean current that can take 1000 years to circle the globe.
What is the oceanic conveyor belt?
Circulation dependent on salinity and density.
What is thermohaline circulation?
When a warm air mass is pushed upward and trapped by two cold air masses.
What is an occluded front?
When water escapes through the leaves of plants.
What is transpiration?