Properties of Water
The property of water allowing water molecules to stick to other water molecules
What is cohesion?
The area where warm surface currents are originating.
What is the equator?
This greenhouse gas is released through respiration, combustion, and volcanic activity.
The layer that we all live in that also contains most of the weather we experience.
What is the troposphere?
This type of pressure system creates stable sunny weather with low chances of rain.
What is a high pressure system?
The property of water allowing water molecules to stick to other substances
What is adhesion
The area where cold surface currents are originating
What are the poles
This greenhouse gas is produced by agriculture, wetlands, fossil fuel extraction, and the melting of permafrost.
What is methane?
The layer of Earth's atmosphere that contains the ozone layer.
What is the stratosphere?
The global winds that form near the equator and drive the ENSO oscillation.
What are the trade winds?
The property of a substance that is not "water loving" like oil.
What is hydrophobic?
The primary driver of surface currents
What are Global wind patterns
A gas present in the stratosphere that contributes to heat absorption.
What is ozone?
An air mass that would typically forms over Canadian land, characterized by dry cold conditions.
What is a continental polar air mass?
A rapidly spinning low pressure storm.
What is a tropical cyclone?
A thin “film” at the surface of water due to cohesion that resists external force.
What is surface tension?
Large systems of rotating surface currents forming due to the combination of wind and the rotation of earth.
What are gyres?
A change that amplifies its original effect like our rising temperatures causing ice to melt, reducing reflective surfaces, increasing solar absorption, increasing temperatures.
What is a positive feedback loop?
A surface’s reflective quality, things that are lighter have a high reflectivity and things that are darker have a high absorption.
What is the albedo?
A fast flowing river of air high in the atmosphere that seperates cold air from warm air in North America
What is the jet stream?
The type of bonding that connects one water molecule to another water molecule.
What is hydrogen bonding?
The process where cold, nutrient dense water moves up from the depths rising to the surface.
What is upwelling?
Scientists used these to examine past carbon dioxide levels because they trap bubbles of CO2, preserving them for thousands of years.
What are ice cores?
The time of day when a land breeze occurs.
What is night?
The apparent deflection of moving objects caused by Earth's rotation, making paths curve to the right in the Northern Hemisphere and to the left in the Southern Hemisphere.
What is the Coriolis effect?