Greenhouse
A natural process that warms the Earth’s surface by trapping heat in the atmosphere.
What is the Greenhouse Effect?
Large stream of moving water that flows in the ocean and is fueled by global winds.
What are surface ocean currents?
Winds that are caused by a change in temperature between land and water.
What are local winds?
Heat transferred by traveling through empty space.
What is radiation?
The sun is closest here.
What is the Equator?
Carbon dioxide, water vapor, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone and CFCs.
What are the greenhouse gases?
These two things makes water denser.
What is cold temperature and high salinity?
A condition that causes a sea breeze to develop.
What is warmer air over land than water?
The total kinetic energy (energy of motion) of atoms and molecules within a system.
What is thermal energy?
Energy from the sun.
What is solar energy?
An increase in greenhouse gases.
What is global warming?
This makes ocean currents move in a curved path.
What is the Earth's rotation/Coriolis Effect?
Winds that are created by unequal heating of the Earth, but occur in a larger area.
What are global winds?
It causes ocean currents and global winds.
What is convection?
These are farthest from the sun.
What are the poles?
First thing that happens due to global warming.
What is an increase in temperature?
A mechanism that drives the deep water circulation to continue to move around the Earth?
What are density currents?
Air that moves from land to sea because the ocean is warmer at night.
What is a land breeze?
Thermal energy that transfers into another object.
What is heat transfer?
The way solar energy moves.
What is electromagnetic waves?
Reasons explaining why there is an abundance (a lot) of carbon dioxide.
What is burning fossil fuels and deforestation?
The system that circulates water and transfers heat throughout the interconnected ocean basins
What is the Great Ocean Conveyor Belt?
The way Earth is rotating causes the winds to appear to curve.
What is the Coriolis Effect?
When the Earth heats the air molecules above it.
What is conduction?
It creates high and low pressure areas.
What is unequal heating of the sun?