3.1
What is the difference between weather and climate?
Weather refers to specific short-term atmospheric conditions, whereas, climate refers to average, long-term weather conditions.
What are the 5 layers of the atmosphere?
The troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere, and exosphere.
What are the 5 climactic elements?
Temperature, precipitation, humidity, atmospheric pressure, and wind.
Weather maps are graphic representation of the ____ conditions of an area at a specific time.
Meteorological
Is the average temperature of the Earth increasing or decreasing?
Increasing
What are two factors that affect weather and climate
Latitude, altitude, distance from the sea.
What are the 3 main ways in which the atmosphere protects us?
What are the 3 climate zones of Earth and which one includes Spain?
2 temperate zones, 1 hot zone, 2 cold zones. Spain is in a temperate zone.
What are isobars?
Imaginary lines that appear on weather maps that connect places with the same atmospheric pressure. They are used to show anticyclones and depressions.
What makes up the greenhouse gases?
Carbon dioxide, methane, and fluorinated gases.
What is the science that studies climate and its long term variations?
Climatology
What are the two main elements found in the gases and solid and liquid particles of the atmosphere?
Nitrogen (78%) and oxygen (21%)
What is the tool that measures humidity?
A hygrometer
What is always comes with a front (formed when 2 masses of different pressure meet and collide), warm or cold?
Precipitation
What is increasing the effect of the greenhouse gases?
Industrial production
What is Spain's meteorological agency called?
The State Meteorological Agency (AEMET)
Where on Earth is especially affected by the hole in the ozone layer?
Antarctica
Does hot or cold air weigh more?
Cold air weighs more because it compresses.
Which way does air ALWAYS move? Low to high OR high to low pressure areas?
High to low
When and where was the first important international meeting to reduce global warming?
The Kyoto Conference 1997
Which country's government is conducting tests to artificially create rain? (And where are the tests occurring?)
The Chinese government (the mountains of Tibet)
What layer of the atmosphere includes the ozone layer?
The stratosphere
What causes wind and what are the 3 main types of wind?
Wind occurs when 2 areas have different atmospheric pressures. Winds can be prevailing, seasonal, or local.
What type of front is represented with purple semicircles and triangles?
Occluded front - one cold front and one warm front meeting and merging.
What was agreed upon at the Paris Summit (2015)?
The Paris Summit agreed to limit global temperature increase to 2 degrees celsius this century.