Atmospheric Pressure
Wind
Hydrosphere
Ocean Currents
Clouds
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Unit of measurement for atmospheric pressure.
What is a kilopascal (kPa)?
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The ultimate cause of wind.
What is the sun (solar energy)?
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The percentage of water on the planet that is fresh.
What is 2.8% (2-3%)?
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Large vortex-like systems of rotating ocean currents. There are 5 major ones at 30⁰ latitude.
What are gyres?
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The height of the lowest layer of broken or overcast clouds.
What is the ceiling?
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Lines on a weather map connecting areas of equal pressure.
What are isobars?
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Major wind patterns that affect large areas.
What are prevailing winds?
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The direct transition from solid to vapour or vapour to solid.
What is sublimation?
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The name for the ocean circulation system that is produced by differences in heat and salinity.
What is thermohaline circulation?
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Particles such as salt from sea spray, smoke, pollen, dust.
What are cloud condensation nuclei?
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Two types of barometers.
What is aneroid and mercury?
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The deflection of an object/fluid such as wind to the right in the Northern Hemisphere.
What is the Coriolis Effect?
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The reservoir in which water molecules spend the greatest residence time.
What is Antarctica?
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An area in the ocean twice the size of Texas which accumulates garbage.
What is The Great Pacific Garbage Patch/the Pacific Trash Vortex?
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1. Horizontally, spread out clouds 2. Vertically growing, puffy clouds
What are stratus and cumulus?
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Atmospheric pressure is inversely related to this.
What is altitude?
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The 3 global wind patterns between 0-30⁰, 30-60⁰, and 60-90⁰ latitude respectively.
What are trade winds, westerlies, and polar easterlies?
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3 processes that put water vapour into the atmosphere.
What are evaporation, sublimation, and transpiration?
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This occurs when the current between Peru and Australia reverses directions.
What is El Nino?
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Prefixes for mid-altitude clouds, high-altitude clouds, and rain bearing clouds respectively.
What are alto, cirro, and nimbus?
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These can be vertical or horizontal.
What are pressure gradients?
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2 examples of local wind systems.
What is a Chinook, Santa Ana, Mountain/Valley wind, seabreeze/landbreeze?
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3 routes water can take after it precipitates.
What are evaporation from oceans, infiltration to groundwater, surface runoff?
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The oceans originated due to these 2 occurrences.
What are steam from early volcanoes, and comets colliding with Earth?
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3 cloud formation processes.
What are convective, frontal, and orographic?
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