Oceans, Atmosphere, and Climate Review
General weather patterns over a long period of time?
Climate
Any of Earth's main continuous areas of land, such as Africa, Asia, and North America?
Continent
The imaginary line that divides Earth into northern and southern hemispheres?
Equator
The distance of a place north or south of Earth’s equator?
Latitude
The distance of a place east or west of Earth’s prime meridian?
Longitude
To use any of the five senses to gather information about something?
observe
Ocean water flowing in a continuous path?
Ocean Current
Winds that move in one direction and are strong enough to push ocean currents?
Prevailing winds
The outside or top layer of something?
Surface
A giant pattern of moving water that spans whole oceans and moves water from place to place?
Gyre
______ from the sun is transferred to Earth’s surface. Some of that energy is then transferred to the air above the surface.
Energy
When an_________ ______ comes from the equator, it brings warmer-than expected water to the places it passes, and that water is warmer than nearby air. When an ocean current comes from a pole, it brings colder-than-expected water to the places it passes, and that water is colder than the nearby air.
Ocean current
An ______ may have more than one cause; these may be linked into a chain of causes and effects
effect
_________ and the position of continents determine the direction of ocean currents.
Prevailing winds
Changes to prevailing winds affect _______ ___________. Changes to ocean currents affect how much energy is brought to (or taken away from) a location.
ocean currents.
An event or process that leads to a result or change?
cause
A climate pattern where water near the equator gets hotter than usual and affects the weather around the world; ____ happens in the Pacific Ocean.
El Nino
The ability to make things move or change?
An object, diagram, or computer program that helps us understand something by making it simpler or easier to see?
Model
An idea about what might happen that is based in what you already know?
prediction
Scientists around the world who share information and ideas?
Scientific Community
Related to sun
solar
A measure of how hot or cold something is?
Temperature
to move from one object to another or one place to another?
transfer
A process in which deep, cold water rises toward the surface of the ocean?
upwelling