Cold temperatures and dry conditions associate with which pressure system
High
100
What is an El Nino
The backtracking of Pacific ocean currents that effect South America first, then the rest of the world.
200
What is used to measure weight in grams
What is a triple beam balance?
200
What is the Doppler effect
The effect on sound and light that when an object is coming towards you, the frequency of the object moves more to the blue end of the electromagnetic spectrum. when an object is moving away from you, its frequency moves to the red end of the electromagnetic spectrum
200
What is the deflection of wind and water on Earth's surfaces called.
What is the Coriolis effect
200
Change in field value/Distance
What is gradient?
200
What is climate
Average weather conditions over 10+years
300
How do u determine rate of change of a graph?
Take the difference in the (y)value and divide this number by the time/distance (x-value).
300
What is an ellipse?
The belief that all planet's orbits are not perfectly circular, but slightly elongated or more oval-like. These planets travel around 2 points rather than one called foci.
300
What is retrograde motion?
The appeared backtracking of another planet from Earth's perspective
300
What is a dry warm air mass?
Continental Tropic air mass (cT).
300
What does a topographic map measure?
What is elevation?
400
What is the difference between asteroids and comets?
Asteroids are only found in the Asteroid belt And all they do is circle through the belt and seldom get knocked off. Comets are balls of ice with high eccentricities that rotate the sun with long revolutions.
400
During which season in the northern hemisphere is the sun directly over the tropic of Capricorn
What is winter
400
What 2 systems move all our weather from southwest to northeast.
The jet streams and prevailing winds.
400
What is it called when you take a topographic map and turn it into a side view