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Climate Controls
Insolation
Seasons
Radiation
Climate Change
100
The Earth is divided into three climate zones based on THIS
What is latitude?
100
Insolation is a fancy word for THIS
What is sunlight that reaches the Earth?
100
We experience 4 seasons because of THIS Earth motion in space.
What is revolution around the sun?
100
The ozone layer is beneficial to humans because it does THIS.
What is absorbing harmful UV rays?
100
Burning THIS is the main reason carbon dioxide in the atmostphere has increased in the last 200 years
What are fossil fuels?
200
Cities are usually hotter than their surrounding suburbs, because they have less of THIS.
What is vegetative cover?
200
DRAWING CHALLENGE!!!! Graph it
What is as the angle of insolation increases, the temperature at the surface of the Earth also increases
200
If THIS did not exist, we would not experience changing temperatures during the year.
What is the tilt of the Earth's axis?
200
THIS kind of harmful radiation is mostly absorbed by the ozone layer, heating up the stratosphere.
What is ultraviolet light?
200
The more of THESE are in the atmosphere, the higher annual temperatures get.
What are greenhouse gases?
300
Two cities are located at the same elevation and latitude. One has hotter summers than the other and colder winters. The factor that is most likely to account for why they have different climates is THIS.
What is proximity to nearby bodies of water? (Answer does not have to include the word proximity for credit)
300
Very cold climates are found at the north and south poles because of THIS.
What is a low angle of insolation?
300
THIS is the farthest north you can go and ever see the sun directly overhead.
What is the tropic of capricorn (23.5 degrees north)?
300
Radiation is any energy that can do THIS
What is travel through empty space? Examples are radio waves, light, x-rays, and infrared.
300
Venus is hotter than the Earth (it's about 900 degrees at the surface). What common gas could you guess there is a lot more of in the atmosphere of Venus?
What is carbon dioxide (CO2)? EXTRA INFO: CO2 absorbs infrared energy that a planet re-radiates, so heat is trapped. This is similar to the way your clothes trap the heat from your body to keep you warm!
400
DAILY DOUBLE!!!! Go to the picture.
1 is colder and wetter, 3 is hotter and drier
400
THIS kind of surface will reflect more light than it absorbs, staying cool.
What is a light, shiny surface, like ice?
400
DRAWING CHALLENGE! Draw the position of the Earth, Sun, and the Earth's axis and shadow on June 21.
(Earth's northern hemisphere should be pointing towards the sun.)
400
THIS kind of radiation mostly passes through the atmosphere, warming the Earth's surface.
What is shortwave radiation or visible light?
400
The greenhouse effect keeps the Earth warm. The greenhouse effect is keeps the Earth warm the same way a greenhouse keeps plants warm in the winter by doing THIS.
What is the fact that greenhouse gases (CO2, methane, etc) let shortwave radiation (light) IN, but prevent longwave radiation (hear) from getting OUT (just like glass).
500
USE THE REFERENCE TABLE for a specific answer!!!! The water off the west coast of the US is cooler than water at the same latitude on the east coast because of THESE
What are the Pacific Ocean Current on the west coast and the Gulf Stream on the East coast?
500
A parking lot is hotter than the grass next to it, because of THIS fact about insolation.
What is the fact the DARK, ROUGH surfaces absorb more energy than light, smooth surfaces?
500
Everywhere on Earth the sun rises due east only on THESE two days.
When are the vernal equinox (March 22) and autumnal equinox (Sept 22)?
500
Terrestrial radiation comes from the Earth. It is mostly THIS kind of radiation, which is a form of heat.
What is infrared?
500
If the amount of carbon dioxide and methane in the atmosphere continue to increase, we should expect THIS to happen.
What will cause worldwide temperatures to increase? Bonus: What will cause climates to change worldwide, and ice-caps to melt near the poles?