The Ocean
The movement of water in a certain direction.
What is an ocean current?
The weather conditions in an area over a long period of time.
What is climate?
The condition of Earth's atmosphere at a particular time and place.
What is weather?
A large volume of air in which temperature and moisture content are nearly the same throughout.
What is an air mass?
The coldest climate zone.
What is the polar zone?
The winds that push water across the oceans.
What are surface currents?
The height of an area above sea level.
What is elevation?
Air rises and cools, forms clouds and rain is this kind of system.
What is a low-pressure system?
A boundary between air masses.
The warmest climate zone.
What is the tropical zone?
With this type of current coastal cities have warmer winter temperatures.
What is a warm ocean current?
The surface features of an area.
What is topography?
Long distance winds that travel the global winds for thousands of kilometers.
What is a jet stream?
When cool air is moving in and warm air rises.
What is a cold front?
The climate zone where average temperature ranges from 50-64 degrees Fahrenheit.
What is the temperate zone?
Absorbs and releases energy, moderates the temperature nearby.
What is water?
The rain shadow effect.
What is when moist air hits a mountain and is forced to rise, the rising air cools and releases rain, when the air moves over the mountain it is dry creating a dry climate and desert?
The continuous movement of water between Earth's surface and the air.
What is the water cycle?
When the wind is not strong enough to keep the masses moving.
What is a stationary front?
The change in climates results from the differences in
What is topography, winds, ocean currents, and geography?
It fuels hurricanes.
What is warm ocean water?
The factors that affect climate.
What is latitude, wind patterns, elevation, locations of mountains and large bodies of water, and nearness to ocean currents?
The curving path of winds because of Earth's rotation.
What is the Coriolis effect?
Fronts do not often occur near here because air masses there do not have big temperature differences.
What is the equator?
What is subarctic?