Ocean Layers
This device, whose name is an abbreviation, measures conductivity, temperature, and depth.
What is a CTD?
Ice melting in your hand is an example of this type of heat transfer.
What is conduction?
This is the ability of an object or a system to do work on another object or system.
What is energy?
The conditions of the atmosphere in one place over a short time are called this.
What is weather?
When two air masses are not moving much, this type of front forms.
What is a stationary front?
CTDs measure biotic or abiotic factors?
What is abiotic?
The sun’s energy travels through space and heats Earth’s surface by this type of heat transfer.
What is radiation?
A system that exchanges both energy and matter across its boundaries is this type.
What is an open system?
The average of weather in a region over a long period of time is called this.
What is climate?
Thunderstorms are common when a cold air mass moves toward a warm air mass at this front.
What is a cold front?
As you dive deeper into the ocean, the temperature does this.
What is decreases (it gets colder)?
Warm air rises, cooler air sinks, and a circular motion forms. This is the type of heat transfer.
What is convection?
This system of deep water currents connects the world’s oceans.
What is the Global Conveyor Belt? (Thermohaline Circulation)
Part of the lower atmosphere stays over land or ocean and takes on its temperature and humidity. This is what forms.
What is an air mass?
Overcast skies are common at this front, where a cold air mass retreats from a warm air mass.
What is a warm front?
As you dive deeper into the ocean, the pressure does this.
What is increases?
This law says energy cannot be created or destroyed, only transferred or changed in form.
What is the Law of Conservation of Energy? (First Law of Thermodynamics)
If the ocean is warmer than the atmosphere, energy moves in this direction.
What is from the ocean into the air it touches?
Earth’s rotation and uneven heating create these winds that blow in a specific direction over a region.
What are prevailing winds?
When two cold air masses capture a warm air mass between them, this front forms.
What is an occluded front?
This layer is where temperature changes rapidly, separating warm surface water from cooler water below.
What is the thermocline?
The average movement of particles in a substance.
What is temperature?
A system that exchanges energy but not matter with its surroundings is this type.
What is a closed system?
Hurricanes, typhoons, and cyclones are all this type of storm.
What is a tropical storm?
This air mass type is humid and warm.
What is maritime tropical?