Feeling Energetic?
The energy related to movement.
What is kinetic energy?
The ocean is made of this.
What is water?
The most prevalent greenhouse gas.
What is carbon dioxide?
It's just frozen seawater!
What is sea ice?
The number of chickens I have.
What is four?
Two factors that control how quickly a planet can lose heat.
What are surface area and volume?
It supplies the salty water that eventually forms deep water in the North Atlantic.
What is the Gulf of Mexico?
The time of day sea breezes occur.
What is the end of the day?
What are ice shelves?
Color scheme to not use in scientific figures.
What is rainbow?
An object that absorbs all incoming radiation and re-radiates it as heat.
What is a black body?
The sea where deep water forms in the North Atlantic.
What is the Norwegian Sea?
The part of this circulation at Earth's surface travels North, the part above Earth's surface travels South.
What is a Ferrel Cell?
Farther along than snow, not yet a glacier
What is firn?
The best chicken.
Who is Beaker?
It states that energy can't be created or destroyed, just transformed from one form to another.
What is conservation of energy?
The unit mostly used to describe the strength of ocean currents.
What is a Sverdrup?
Its upper limb sinks to Earth's surface when the Coriolis force overcomes its poleward momentum.
What is a Hadley Cell?
A possible paleoclimate analogue for the melting of the Greenland ice sheet.
What are Heinrich Events?
You need about 4,700mg of this per day.
What is potassium?
The opposite of albedo
What is emissivity?
How long it takes for the global ocean conveyor to make one full rotation.
What is 1000 years?
The circulation most related to ENSO
What is Walker Circulation?
Open water surrounded by sea ice
What is a polynya?
Climate change mascot.
Who is the polar bear from an Inconvenient Truth?