Energy Transfer
How does energy from the sun get transferred to the Earth?
What is radiation.
How are large weather systems moved through Earth?
What are jet streams.
Weather or Climate?
The average temperature of Tampa from 1975 to 2017 was 76 degrees F.
What is climate.
Fujita Scale.
How tornadoes are classified.
A very large wave, usually more than one, caused by some other event (earthquake, landslide, etc.)
What is Tsunami?
How does energy from Earth's atmosphere transfer?
What is convection.
In the southern ocean you can find these currents.
What is deep coldwater currents.
What is the tool that measures wind speed?
What is an anemometer.
A flood where rainwater falls too quickly to be absorbed by the surface.
What is a surface flood?
found in the stratosphere of Earth, it blocks harmful ultraviolet radiation from the sun.
Ozone Layer
Which energy transfer causes the heating of a pot of water?
What is conduction.
How do convection currents move energy in the atmosphere?
Warm air causes water vapor to rise, contacting cool air where the water vapor condenses.
What is the difference between climate and weather?
Weather is current conditions in a specific place.
Climate is weather over a long period of time.
The Richter Scale.
How earthquakes are measured?
The transfer of liquid water to water vapor due to heating by the sun.
What is evaporation
How does the sun cause changes in the atmosphere?
Wind can affect these currents.
What are surface currents.
The fuel for hurricanes are?
Warm, moist air.
The ring of fire.
Where most volcanoes are found.
A barometer measures?
Air pressure.
What is the greenhouse effect?
What is the influx of greenhouse gases trapping heat, not allowing it to escape, reradiating the area.
How does the Coriolis Effect winds globally?
It causes apparent change in wind direction.
A person who studies the weather is called a?
Meteorologist.
Hurricanes, Typhoons, Cyclones...
What are the three different names for severe tropical storms that form around the world?
a narrow, variable band of very strong, predominantly air currents encircling the globe several miles above the earth.
What is the jet stream.