✨Weather✨
A prediction or estimate of future weather events
What is Forecast?
1. The day-to-day state of the atmosphere.
2. The long term average weather patterns in a specific place.
1. What is Weather?
2. What is Climate?
The layer of gas surrounding a planet that is held in place by gravity.
All the water on Earth makes up the _____________.
What is the Hydrosphere?
The border between an advancing cold air mass and a retreating warm air mass
The frozen soil found in the Tundra.
What is permafrost?
This layer is the closest to Earth's surface and is where most weather happens.
What is Troposphere?
When weathered rock is picked up and moved.
What is erosion?
A map or chart that shows the weather conditions at a specific point in time over a specific region
What is Weather Map?
This is the driving force of all weather and climate.
What is the Sun (thermal energy)?
This natural process involves gases trapping heat in the atmosphere to keep Earth warm.
What is the Greenhouse Effect?
Name two renewable resources.
What are solar, wind, hydropower, geothermal, biomass or ocean energy?
(Just need to state two)
This type of front is usually shown as alternating purple triangles and semicircles on a weather map
What is an Occluded Front?
The ______ makes the climate more moderate and not so extreme as compared to other locations in similar latitudes.
What is the ocean/sea?
This gas is the most abundant gas in the Earth's atmosphere.
What is Nitrogen?
Name the 3 types of categories of rocks.
This type of humidity is a percentage, measuring how saturated air is based on its temperature-dependent capacity to hold water.
What is Relative Humidity?
This type of heat transfer occurs in liquids and gases when warmer, less dense fluid rises and cooler, denser fluid sinks.
What is a convection current?
When dark, open oceans absorb the light energy from the Sun, this happens.
Which is the light energy is converted to heat and warms the water?
This refers to the rapid expansion of cities and towns into rural areas resulting in habitat loss and increased traffic.
What is urban sprawl?