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The hottest layer of the atmosphere.
What is the thermosphere?
The form of heat transfer that creates the atmospheric convection cells.
What is convection?
The part of the water cycle which does not function without the heat from the sun.
What is evaporation?
The two main causes of the Thermohaline Circulation.
What are heat and salt?
The amount of water vapor in the air.
What is humidity?
The outermost layer of the atmosphere.
What is the exosphere?
The curvature of winds due to the rotation of the Earth.
What is the Coriolis effect?
Condensed water falling through the troposphere in many forms.
What is precipitation?
Movement of cold nutrient rich water from the bottom of coastlines to the surface.
What is upwelling?
Temperature that is stable because of proximity to water
What is moderate weather?
The boundary between the troposphere and the stratosphere.
What is the tropopause?
Weather patterns that are altered because of their interactions with mountain ranges.
What is the orographic effect?
Water vapor released from living organisms directly into the atmosphere.
What is transpiration?
Large circular patterns of water that move ocean water from the tropics to the poles.
What are gyres?
The amount of heat from the sun
What is the main driver for weather on Earth?
The O3 gas in the stratosphere which absorbs UV Light.
What is the ozone layer?
Consistent wind patterns that move across the globe at various latitudes.
What are the prevailing winds?
The process of water vapor droplets combining to form clouds.
What is condensation?
The strong currents that animals migrate through and influence global climate.
What is the Thermohaline Circulation?
The three main climate regions on Earth
What are tropical, temperate, and polar?
List all the layers of the atmosphere. State whether the temp is increasing or decreasing
Tropo --> Decrease
Strato --> Increase
The light which strikes the Earth causing the poles to be colder than the equator.
What is the angle of light?
How do YOU contribute to the water cycle?
What is your breath?
Circular surface currents that are caused by an interaction between wind and the ocean surface.
What are gyres?
The thermodynamic process that drives the rain patterns across the globe.
What is convection?