Heating Earth
Does oceans or land hold temperature for longer?
Oceans
What is the sphere closest to Earth?
Troposphere
What is the cloud called that has high-altitude feathery thin, white, curly shaped clouds?
Cirrus
What is precipitation?
Water that falls to Earth.
What is it called when waters of the ocean move in streams?
Currents
Does location cause different temperature changes? Explain.
Yes, if your in a shady area then the temperature will go down or warm up slower, but if your in the sun it will warm faster but cool slower.
What's the highest sphere?
Exosphere
What is the cloud called that has high-altitude, small, wispy, patchy, puffy clouds that form in rows?
Cirrocumulus
What's after evaporation?
Condensation
What is salinity?
The amount of salt.
What cools faster water or soil?
Soil
What sphere is about 50 kilometers above Earth?
Stratosphere
What is the cloud called that has high-altitude thin wispy clouds. When they cover the sky, they are so thin that it looks like a white sheet?
Cirrostratus
Where's fresh water stored?
Underground
The rising of cold, deep water is called what?
Upwelling
What is our source of energy?
Sun
What sphere has very thin air?
Thermosphere
What is the cloud called with low-altitudefluffy whiteclouds, typical of hot weather?
Cumulus
What is evapotranspiration?
The process by which water is transferred from the land to the atmosphere.
In the eighteenth century, Benjamin Franklin made some of the earliest studies of what?
Ocean currents
Does water or air heat faster?
Air
What is the sphere above the stratosphere?
Mesosphere
What is the cloud called that has a low-altitude, dark rain clouds?
Nimbostratus
What is transpiration?
Evaporation coming off of plants.
Sometimes the trade winds weaken, and this warming takes place. What is it?
El Nino