Earth's Energy
What is the definition of convection?
What special property does water have?
It is able to absorb a great amount of heat before its temperature rises.
What happens when the ocean and atmosphere work together?
It moves heat and fresh water across the globe.
What is the strong Atlantic current that brings warm water and mild climates from the Gulf of Mexico along the Florida coast?
The Gulf Stream
rotating Earth, the atmosphere, the ocean, continents and distribution of landforms, global distribution of ice, distribution of living things, energy.
What drives our weather?
The Sun
Where are large amount of solar energy stored?
Earth's oceans.
How do the ocean and atmosphere work together?
Wind-driven and ocean currents move warm water towards the poles and colder water toward the equator?
What is the strong Pacific current that moves cold water from the northern Pacific southward along the westcoast?
The California Current
What happens when solar radiation warms ocean water?
It causes some of the water to evaporate.
The sun heats the Earth unequally while the Earth rotates, which creates air and water movement.
What creates a sea breeze?
Warm air over land rises while cooler air over ocean sinks, creating wind currents. Wind moves from high pressure areas to low pressure areas, so winds blow toward the coast.
What is the great ocean conveyor belt?
Movement of warm and cold ocean currents around the globe.
What is a Hurricane?
They are violent storms that form when large amounts of ocean water evaporate over water-water areas.
What is the process of convection?
As warm air becomes less dense, it rises, helping distribute heat/. At higher altitudes, the molecules cool, become denser, and sink towards the surface.
What creates a land breeze?
At night, land cools faster and oceans. Therefore, warmer air above oceans rises while cool air above land sinks. Wind blow away from the coast.
What is thermohaline?
What does the large evporation of ocean water cause?
It pulls water away from the surface of the ocean water. This void of air leaves an area of low pressure underneath to the mass of rising air causes other air to be drawn into this low pressure zone.
What does convection create?
Wind
How are land and sea breezes different?
A sea breeze has cool ocean air sink and warm land air rise. Land breezes have warm ocean air rise and cool land air sink.
What is the thermohaline circulation?
A major deep ocean current that moves energy from the tropics to the poles.
Warm air rises up and condenses into storm clouds. The pressure of the surface gets lower beneath the rising air. This continues in a cycle.