Oceans
What is Salinity?
When ice particles change directly into water vapor
What is Sublimation?
The layer that absorbs much of the sun's UV radiation and warms the atmosphere
What is the Ozone Layer?
The deflection of moving air, as caused by the Earth's rotation
What is the Coriolis Effect/Force?
The three layers of the water column
What is the Mixed Surface Layer, Main Thermocline, and Deep Water?
The temperature at which saturation occurs from cooling
What is Dew Point Temperature?
The reversible process of an air parcel rising and falling
What is the Adiabatic Process?
Cell that flows opposite to the others
What is the Ferrel Cell?
The separation of waves by differing speeds
What is Wave Dispersion?
Heat which is absorbed or released into the atmosphere
What is Latent Heat?
The type of atmosphere when a parcel of air is warmer than its environment and continues to rise
What is an Unstable Atmosphere?
Two (2) converging equatorial air flows
What is NE and SE Trade Winds?
Seven (7) visual indicators to locate a front
What are Color Changes, Transparency, Marine Life, Cloud Type, Fog, Debris, and Sea Ice?
The definition of Relative Humidity
What is the Ratio of actual water vapor content of a sample of air to the maximum that it could hold at that temperature, expressed as a percentage?
Four (4) types of trigger mechanisms
What are Convection, Orographic uplift, Mass Ascent, and Mechanical Turbulence?
What is the Polar Front?
The Canary, Peru-Chile, and Benguela currents
What are Eastern Boundary Currents?
What is Heat Capacity?
Six (6) factors that influence global surface temperature variation
What is Time of Day, Effect of Cloud Cover, Effect of Wind, Seasons, Latitude, and Albedo?
Stream of air concentrated at or near the Tropopause
What is a jet stream?