Energy in the Atmosphere
The sun is provides this type of energy.
What is the solar energy?
The two types of winds are _____ ______ and ______ _______.
Local winds and global winds
The movement of wind and water to the right in the Northern Hemisphere and to the left in the southern, due to the turning of the Earth. (Makes global winds and water CURVE)
What is the Coriolis effect?
The gradual and continuous process of increasing the Earth's average surface temperature.
What is global warming?
The increase in this gas, caused by burning fossil fuels, is responsible for accelerated global warming. It is also the most abundant greenhouse gas in the atmosphere.
What is carbon dioxide?
The Earth's atmosphere does this with solar energy.
What is absorbing and reflecting?
Global winds form because Earth is heated unequally, especially between the poles and the…
Equator
This type of ocean current is driven mainly by wind and happens at the ocean’s surface.
What is a surface ocean current?
The type of heat transfer happens when two objects touch
Conduction
This layer of the atmosphere traps greenhouse gases causing the Earth's surface temperature to increase.
What is the ozone layer?
Roughly this percentage of solar energy is absorbed by the Earth's surface (land and oceans).
What is 50%?
These occur during the day as cool air comes from the ocean and flows under the rapidly heating air on land.
What are seabreezes?
Deep currents are caused by a change in water _____which causes colder water to sink and warmer water to rise--keeps water moving.
What is density?
The type of heat transfer happens when warm air rises and cool air sinks
Convection
Warmer ocean temperatures provide more of this to the atmosphere, leading to more frequent and intense rainfall and flooding.
What is water vapor (or moisture)?
The process by which gases trap heat in the atmosphere.
What is the greenhouse effect?
These occur during the NIGHT when cooler air comes from a rapidly cooling land mass out to sea and under the warm air rising from the sea.
What are land breezes?
What two factors increase water density and drive deep ocean currents?
Temperature (cold) and salinity (high salt)
The type of heat transfer when heat is transferred through space.
What is radiation?
Give at least one cause of global warming and an environmental impact of global warming.
Causes: Burning fossil fuels, Deforestation, Volcanic Activity, Releasing CFCs
Effects: Glaciers begin melting -> Sea Levels Rising, Warmer Oceans, Animals Lose Habitat, Animals become Extinct, Ozone Layer Depleted -> Intense Solar Radiation
This is the name for the balance between incoming energy from the sun and outgoing energy from the Earth.
What is the Earth's Energy Budget?
Changes in ocean temperature in the Pacific can shift this high-altitude "river of air," changing where storms travel across North America.
What is the Jet Stream?
The ocean currents move in a loop called
What is the Global Ocean Conveyor Belt?
Adding this substance to ocean water increases its density, causing it to sink and drive deep-water currents.
What is Salt (Salinity)?
List the 3 main greenhouse gases. (Extra point if you can provide an example for each.)
Water Vapor- Steam from evaporation off oceans, Carbon dioxide- Car exhaust, Methane-Cows Releasing gas, Nitrous Oxide- Fertilizers used on farms, Chlorofluorocarbons- Aerosol spray cans, Ozone- Smog in cities