Weather
When two air masses meet
What is front?
What is low pressure?
Name of cycling heat when warm rises and cool falls
What is convection?
Process that absorbs carbon through plants
What is photosynthesis?
Name for removing forests
What is deforestation?
Energy source for cyclones
What is hot ocean water?
Causes global winds to curve
What is the Coriolis Effect?
Compound released by livestock waste, considered a greenhouse gas
What is methane?
Where most of our electricity comes from
What are fossil fuels?
The type of front that creates rain/clouds for days, warmer and more humid weather.
What is warm front?
Ingredients to form a cyclone
What is high humidity, low pressure, hot ocean water?
Origin of a current that warms the land and air around it
What is the equator?
Immediate result of a volcanic eruption
What is cooling?
2 reasons agriculture is harmful to the climate
What is methane production and use of fresh water?
The fastest front
What is cold front?
Name of cyclone that forms near Brazil
What is hurricane?
Global wind that is closest to equator
What are trade winds?
Reason coastal locations have small temperature ranges
What are ocean currents?
Main reason urbanization impacts climate
What is increased CO2?
Name of humid, cold air mass.
What is maritime polar?
Ingredients required to form a tornado
What is land, low pressure, warm moist, warm dry, and cool dry masses?
Reason that doldrums do not have wind
What is no difference in temp/pressure?
Purpose of "greenhouse" gas name
What is retaining heat?
Reason humans shouldn't eliminate all greenhouse gases
What is they provide some stability and necessary warmth for the planet?