The Sun and the Sea
Most of the Earth is covered by this
What is water or oceans
The three main processes involved in the water cycle.
What are, evaporation, condensation and precipitation?
Large pieces of ice that move very slowly. They are found mainly on mountaintops and at Earth's poles.
What are glaciers?
The imaginary line that divides Earth into its northern an southern hemispheres or halves.
What is the equator?
If a place has this it will have a cool climate even if it is on the equator.
What is a high elevation?
The main source of energy on Earth.
What is the Sun?
Occurs from the surfaces of large bodies of water, such as oceans, lakes, rivers and streams.
What is evaporation?
Is the movement of water between the atmosphere, land, and oceans.
What is the water cycle?
An area that has similar average temperatures and precipitation.
What is a climate zone?
It heats and up and cools down more slowly than land does so places near the coast are often cooler in the summer and warmer in the winter.
What is the Ocean or water?
Is the mixture of gases, dust , and other small particles that surrounds Earth.
What is the atmosphere?
When water vapor rises into the atmosphere, where temperatures are cooler it cools and and changes back into liquid water.
What is condensation?
What is groundwater?
These are the three climate zones.
What are Tropical, Temperate and Polar?
A landform that can affect the rain pattern of a large areas.
What is a mountain?
Are the "storage tanks" for heat energy and the source of the billions of tiny water droplets that make up clouds.
What are oceans?
These are used to study the large-scale movement of water on Earth. They are also used help us study things that are too small to see, too large, or happen to quickly or slowly.
What are models?
Causes runoff to flow over Earth's surface.
What is gravity?
In the tropical climate zone it is directly overhead nearly all year long and causes intense heating of the Earth's surface.
What is the sun?
Can deeply affect the temperature and precipitation amounts of nearby coastal areas.
What is a warm ocean current?
Move heat energy from the equator to other coastal areas.
What are warm ocean currents?
Comes in many forms based on temperature.
What is precipitation?
This is where about 9/10 of the water that evaporates into the atmosphere comes from.
What are oceans?
Are the four factors that determine climate.
What are latitude, elevation, proximity to water, and landforms?
What is a Swamp?