Energy
Sunlight reaches the earth through this form of energy transfer.
What is radiation?
This climate factor explains why Denver, Colorado is likely colder than Virginia Beach, VA.
What is elevation?
This is the side of a mountain that is hit by wind.
What is windward side?
This material from our lab had a low specific heat.
What is sand?
Where is the warm water during El Nino years?
The Americas
The balance between energy entering and leaving Earth's atmosphere is referred to as this.
What is energy budget?
This is the relationship between latitude and average temperature.
This is the side of the mountain that will experience hotter, drier climates.
What is leeward side?
The hot sand and cool water during the day creates a pressure difference, resulting in this wind.
What is a sea breeze?
These global winds are responsible for the normal movement of warm water from east to west across the Pacific.
What are the trade winds?
Examples of greenhouse gases (Name at least 2)
What is CO2, methane, water vapor, CFCs, and ozone?
This global wind pattern transports heat from the western half of the United States to the Eastern half.
What are the Westerlies?
The windward side of a mountain usually appears this color.
What is green?
Coastal locations will have this temperature range throughout the year. (small/medium/large)
What is small?
This phase would result in the most exaggerated upwelling along the coast of Peru.
What is La Nina?
Sunlight enters Earth's atmosphere as ultraviolet energy, but leaves Earth as this.
What is infrared? (or longwave radiation)
Ireland has a much warmer climate than Newfoundland Canada, even though they're at the same latitude, because of this warm ocean current.
What is the Gulf Stream or N. Atlantic Current?
This is the type of pressure you would find in a rain shadow region.
What is high pressure?
During a hot summer day, the air pressure over a hot beach is 1013 mb. This is a possible air pressure over the cool ocean water.
What is >1013 mb?
This is the type of fish that relies on cold, nutrient rich water along the South American coast line?
These are the TWO traits that would make a surface have a high albedo.
What is light color and smooth surface?
Compared to NYC, St. Louis Missouri will have __________ summers and ____________ winters. (warmer/colder)
What is warmer summers and colder winters?
As air meets the side of a mountain, it does these three things in order to form clouds.
What is rises, expands, and cools?
A land breeze, created when water is warm and sand is cool at night, is an example of this type of current.
What is convection?
FINAL Jeopardy:
This is the heaviest element that can be created through nuclear fusion in the Sun.
What is oxygen?