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Winds
LAMECOW
Energy
Paleoclimatology/
climate change
El nino/ La nina
100
Prevailing westerlies
What is the name of the winds that are located between 60 and 30 degrees north and south?
100
Latitude, Air pressure, Mountain barriers, Elevation, Continental location, Ocean currents, and Winds.
What does LAMECOW stand for?
100
Energy a moving object has. Stored energy.
What has Kinetic energy? Potential?
100
The study of past climate.
What is paleoclimatology?
100
El nino.
What warms the ocean?
200
Horse latitudes
What is the name of the latitudes that are at 30 degrees north and south?
200
Long term average of weather, determined by average temperatures, average precipitation, and native vegetation.
What is climate and how do you determine the climate of a place?
200
mgh, 1/2mv^2
What is the formula to calculate Gravitational potential energy? Kinetic energy?
200
Tree rings, ice cores, corals, pollen, sediments.
What is used to study paleoclimatology?
200
El Nino Southern Oscillation
What does ENSO stand for?
300
Night. Day.
When do land breezes occur? Sea?
300
Colder
The further from the equator you are the ____ it is.
300
Joules (J)
What is energy measured in?
300
Sea level would rise?
What would happen if the ice on Antarctica would melt?
300
Cools the ocean.
What does la nina do?
400
Curves to the right. Curves to the left.
Which direction do winds in the northern hemisphere curve? Southern hemisphere?
400
Unequal heating of earth's surface.
What is air pressure caused by?
400
Energy cannot be created or completely destroyed. As energy is transferred it becomes less useful, mainly in the form of thermal energy.
What does the 1st law of Thermodynamics state? 2nd law?
400
Prevents heat from escaping, heating up the earth.
What role does CO2 have in climate change?
400
Roughly every three years.
How often does El Nino occur?
500
30 degrees north and south.
Calm spots occur at the horse latitudes which is at what latitude?
500
Deserts.
Rain shadows help create what?
500
Elastic energy.
What type of potential energy can be stretched or compressed?
500
What lived in Antarctica and the temperatures at that time.
What do the fossils tell us about the climate of Antarctica?
500
Warmer costal cities.
What happens to costal cities near warm ocean currents?