Climate Interactions
Weather Factors
Weather Patterns
Anything Goes
Tough Questions
100
The process by which gases hold heat in the atmosphere.
What is the greenhouse effect?
100
The total energy of motion in the particles of a substance.
What is thermal energy?
100
Two conditions required for cloud formation.
What is cooling of the air and presence of particles?
100
Part of the earth containing rocks and metal.
What is the geosphere?
100
Means that hurricane conditions are expected within the next 24 hours.
What is a hurricane warning?
200
Wavelengths that are a little bit shorter than visible light.
What is ultraviolet?
200
The formula for density.
What is mass / volume?
200
Major difference between cyclones and anticyclones?
What is the direction of their winds?
200
Main source of energy for the earth system.
What is heat from the sun?
200
The reason local winds are different from global winds.
What is they are caused by unequal heating within a small area?
300
List the main layers in the atmosphere from Earth to Space.
What is troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere?
300
The climate zone that lies between 23.5 degrees and 66.5 degrees latitude.
What is the temperate zone?
300
The kind of weather a continental tropical air mass brings with it.
What is hot and dry?
300
Can cause a rush of water onshore.
What is storm surge?
300
Type of air mass that would bring cold, dry air to the northern united states in the winter.
What is continental polar?
400
Greenhouse gases.
What are water vapor, carbon dioxide, and methane?
400
Sea and land breezes over a large region that change direction with the seasons?
What are monsoons?
400
Indicated by the small lines at the end of the shaft that represents wind direction.
What is wind speed?
400
This natural disaster can sometimes be controlled by dams and levees.
What is a flood?
400
Type of energy that causes sunburns.
What is ultraviolet radiation?
500
The reason water heats more slowly than land.
What is more energy is required to heat water than is needed to heat land?
500
The reason cool air flows under warm air.
What is 'cool air is more dense?'
500
lines joining places on a map that have the same air pressure.
What is an isobar?
500
Most energy travels from the sun to Earth's surface in this form.
What is radiation?
500
Higher up in the atmosphere, this happens to air pressure.
What is decrease?
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