Glossary Words
General Weather Patterns over a long period of time.
What is Climate?
The closer a location is to the Equator, the warmer it will be.
What is latitude?
When something has more kinetic energy, its temperature is this.
What is hotter?
In the hot and cold physical model, the hot water represented this location on the Earth.
What is the equator?
Winds blowing in a constant direction that are strong enough to move ocean currents.
What are Prevailing Winds?
The imaginary line that divides the Earth into northern and southern hemispheres.
What is the equator?
If water comes from the poles, and the current is cold, energy transfers air to ocean.
What are ocean currents?
When something is colder, that means it has less what than something that is hotter?
What is kinetic energy?
When we used the food coloring in the hot and cold water, we were looking for evidence of this.
What is kinetic energy?
The term for things related to the sun?
What is solar?
Water flowing in a continuous path.
What is a current?
These impact the top 300-400 meters of the ocean and based on their origin, can make a location warmer or colder.
What are prevailing winds?
Energy moves from hotter to this.
What is colder?
An idea about what might happen based on our understanding of a situation.
What is a prediction?
This current results in a milder, warmer climate for Europe.
What is The Gulf Stream?
A giant pattern of moving water that can span a whole ocean.
What is a gyre?
The term that describes when a location is higher or lower.
What is elevation?
When a current is bringing water from the equator, the energy transfer usually moves in this direction.
What is from the water to the air?
Data gathered using the five senses.
What is an observation?
The amount of this explains why the equator is warmer than the poles.
What is light intensity?
Also acceptable: What is incoming energy from the sun?
The process of deep, cold water rising to the surface of the ocean.
What is upwelling?
When a location is higher, the average temperature is usually this.
What is colder?
When the air is warmer than the ocean current, this happens to the average temperature.
What is it gets colder?
An explanation based on our thinking about the data.
What is an inference?
This is the term given to the deep ocean currents that cycle slowly around the earth.
What is the global conveyor belt?