Climate and Weather
Weather or Climate: Short term patterns; for example, watching a storm moving in
What is Weather?
Ocean currents distribute this around the world.
What is heat?
Winds that blow over large areas, like sections of the Earth
What are global winds?
A type of current that transfers energy through convection
What is an ocean or air current?
This factor refers to location: how far North or South of the equator
What is latitude?
Weather or Climate: Long term patterns, like annual temperatures
What is Climate?
Surface currents are mainly driven by
What is wind?
What are local winds?
Convection is driven by energy from this
What is the Sun?
This happens to temperatures as altitude increases
What is decrease/get colder?
Climate in a polar climate zone can be described as this
What is cold and dry?
The Coriolis Effect causes currents to turn due to
What is the Earth's rotation?
Wind moves from _____ pressure to ______ pressure areas
What is high to low?
In a convection current, warm air does this
What is rise?
A warm ocean current would typically cause this type of climate nearby
What is warm and humid?
Climate in a temperate climate zone can be described as this
What is mild (warm summers, cold winters)?
TWO things are deep ocean currents driven by
What are differences in density caused by salinity and temperature?
A type of breeze during daytime, where cool air flows from the sea to the land
What is a sea breeze?
In a convection current, cool air sinks because it is
What is more dense?
The reason for locations closest to the equator being the hottest
What is direct sunlight?
Two things that climate and weather both measure
What are precipitation, temperature, wind and humidity?
The name of the ocean current that moves water around the Earth through both surface and deep ocean currents
What is the Global Ocean Conveyor Belt?
This type of local wind occurs at night time
What is a land breeze?
The heating of these TWO things causes atmospheric convection currents, or wind
What are land and water?
Locations closer to a large body of water typically have this kind of climate (describe)
What is milder or temperate?