Key terms
What do we call the conditions of the atmosphere at a particular time and place
Weather
What do we call the large-scale movement of water in the Ocean?
Ocean currents
What is the term for the average temperature and precipitation in a region over many years?
Climate
_____________ winds and the posistion of __________ determine the direction of ocean currents.
Prevailing
Continets
Energy from the sun is transferred to Earth's surface. Some of that energy is then transferred to the _______ above the surface.
Air
What do we call the long-term changes in temperature, precipitation, and other atmospheric conditions?
Climate change
What is the term for the movement of air from high pressure to low pressure?
Wind
What is the term for the layer of gases surrounding Earth?
Atmostphere
Chnages to _______________ winds affect ocean currents. Chnages to ocean currents affect how much ________ is brought to ( or taken away from ) a location
Prevailing
ENergy
The closer a location is to the __________, the more energy it recieves from the sun. Therefore, a locatation's air tempeture is affected by its _______________ from the equater.
Equater
Distance
What is the effect called that causes moving air and water to twist and turn due to Earth's rotation?
Coriolis effect
What is the Phenomenon called when warm air rises and cold air sinks, creating wind?
Convection
Energy transfers from which substances to which substances?
Warmer to cooler
Does the sun radiate heat to the air to the surface and back to air or surface to air.
Surface than to the air.
An effect may have more than one ________; these may be linked into a chain of causes and effects
Cause
What is the process called when water vapor cools and changes back into liquid water?
Condensation
What is the term for the boundary between two different air masses?
Front
What is the troposphere?
The lowest layer of the atmosphere where weather occurs.
What is it called when a current is stuck in a circle.
Gyre
Energy transefered from ___________ substances too ____________ substances. Warmer currents transfer energy to cooler air, and warmer air transfers energy to cooler currents.
Hot
Cold
The closer a location is to which point, the less energy it receives from the sun?
The Poles
What is water flowing in a continuous path through the Ocean called?
Ocean current
What is the highest layer of atmostphere?
What causes currents to change off course?
Wind, and coasts of continets
When an ocean comes from the __________, it brings warmer-than-expected water to the places it passes, and that water is warmer than the nearby air. When an ocean current comes from a ________, it brings colder-than-expected water to that places it passes, and that water is colder than nearby air.
Equater
Pole