Energy transfer
This heats and cools faster than water.
What is land (or air)?
The distance from the equator
What is latitude?
Vertical movement of water
What is density current?
When two fronts meet, it usually results in this:
What is precipitation?
The faster moving weather front
What is a cold front?
This can transfer heat and energy through the vacuum of space.
What is radiation?
What is true?
The type of current cause by wind
What is surface current?
The type of weather that usually occurs when a cold front meets a warm front.
Extreme weather
Cold fronts bring this type of weather.
What is dry and cool
The transfer of heat and energy from object to object.
This is the type of climate that describes Western Washington
What is temperate rainforest?
When a vertical current brings up nutrients from the bottom of the ocean.
What is upwelling?
The type of weather the usually occurs when a warm front meets a cold front
What is Mild precipitation
Warm fronts bring this type of weather
What is warm and wet?
This is the electromagnetic transfer of energy.
What is radiation?
The strongest influence on climate
What is the latitude
How does temperature flow..
From hot to cold.
When a front stalls and stops moving for a period of time
The difference between weather and climate?
Weather is temporary, climate is the overall weather over a period of time.
The amount of energy required to heat 1kg of matter by 1-degree.
What is specific heat?
Name two influences on climate
Sun, altitude, latitude, water temperature, land temperature
This is the name given to a giant worldwide current that constantly flows.
What is The Great Ocean Conveyor Belt.
When a fast front overtakes a slower front
What is an occlusion?
The measurement of how much light is reflected from a surface.
What is albedo?