The atmosphere
What is the name of the process that recycles water?
Water cycle
What is the most common rock in Ireland?
Limestone
What measures temperature?
Thermometer
Is weather worse in an anticyclone or depression?
Anticyclone
What are clints and grikes?
These are the cracks and blocks that make up a limestone pavement
Name 3 of the stages of the water cycle.
What is the area of basalt rock in Antrim called?
The Giant's Causeway
What is the tool called that holds weather instruments?
Stevenson screen
What is our studied hurricane in Ireland?
Hurricane ophelia
What is the type of mechanical weathering that involves water freezing and breaking rock?
Freeze-thaw action
What current impacts Ireland?
North-Atlantic drift
What type of rock forms from an existing rock?
Metamorphic
What does an aneroid barometer measure?
Air pressure
How would you identify a depression on a weather map?
Red L, air pressure below 1000
What is a stalactite?
A calcite deposit that hangs from the roof of a cave
Name the 3 types of rainfall
Relief, convectional, frontal (cyclonic)
What is the cycle called that shows how all rocks change?
The rock cycle
What measures wind speed, and what is the measurement of wind speed?
Anemometer and km per hour or knots
What is weather like in an anticyclone?
Little cloud, hot and sunny weather in summer, cold frosty in winter, light wind
What is the name given for rocks that allow water to pass through?
Permeable
How much of the atmosphere is made up of nitrogen?
78%
What rock forms from the cooling and solidification of lava?
Extrusive igneous rock
Name 3 or the types of ISO’s and what they measure (measure different weather types)
Isobars - air pressure
Isotherms - air temp
Isohels - sunshine hours
Isohyets - Rainfall
Isotachs - wind speed
How do hurricanes form?
form off African coasts, temp of water needs to be 26 degrees celsius or higher. Air gets drawn into a lowe Pressure zone, warm ocean disuse evaporation. As this air rises it condenses asking cloud, this continues and is spun with the coriolis effect. At 119km per hour it is a cat 1 hurricane
What is the name given to the different layers of rock?
Strata