Weather and Climate
This molecule, a key component of weather and climate, continually cycles among land, ocean, and the atmosphere.
What is water?
Activities from this specie has significantly altered the biosphere, sometimes damaging or destroying natural habitats and causing the extinction of other species.
What is humans?
This is an example of a material that is a good insulator. Sometimes people pour hot liquids in it since it traps air and reduces the transfer of heat energy.
What is styrofoam?
On Earth, 78.08% of the atmosphere is made up of this gas.
What is nitrogen?
This is a measure of the average kinetic energy of particles of matter.
What is temperature?
Hotter climates tend to be closer to this latitude
What is 0 degrees (equator)?
Fossil fuel combustion, cement production, and agricultural activity have just a few examples that have led to a rise in this
What is global temperatures?
When the kinetic energy of an object changes, this is transferred to or from the object.
We can use the formula MASS/ VOLUME to calculate this.
What is density?
A natural fuel such as coal or gas, formed in the geological past from the remains of living organisms.
What is fossil fuel?
This can only ever be predicted and not proven.
What is weather?
This is one example of a natural process that leads to a rise in global temperatures.
What is volcanic activity, incoming solar radiation?
When two substances at different temperatures are mixed together, heat flows from this to this until they reach the same temperature
What is warmer body to cooler body?
Only 3% of Earth's total water is this.
What is fresh water?
As air in the atmosphere moves, Earth is rotating , dragging the air along with it and changing its direction. This is called the _________________ effect.
What is Coriolis?
Weather and climate are influenced by interactions involving, as an example these two things
What is sunlight, the ocean, the atmosphere, ice, landforms, and living things?
This is the layer of the atmosphere we live in.
What is the troposphere?
What is greenhouse?
This scientific tool allows you to zoom in and see cell structures sometimes 400 times their original size.
An unusally warm water in the eastern Pacific Ocean that causes many changes in weather in other places.
What is El Nino?
This exerts a major influence on weather and climate by absorbing energy from the sun, releasing it over time, and globally redistributing it through currents.
What is the ocean?
This is how long is takes Earth to complete one rotation.
What is 24 hours?
The relationship between the temperature and the total energy of a system depends on this. the types, states, and amounts of matter present.
What is the types, states, and amounts of matter present?
This is the number of nuclei in a prokaryotic cell.
What is zero?
Energy transfer during which hot fluid rises and cold fluid sinks, creating a cycle
What is convection?