What will always be true of an object possessing a potential energy of 0 joules?
What is it is on the ground.
100
Is warm air or cold air more dense?
What is cold.
100
What are the two types of ocean currents?
What is surface currents and deep ocean currents.
100
Are we currently in the El Nino or La Nina stage?
What is El Nino.
200
Define potential energy.
What is energy stored in a object.
200
Where is the primary source of energy for the earth from?
What is the sun.
200
What does LAMECOW stand for?
What is latitude, air pressure, mountains, elevation, continental location, ocean currents, winds.
200
What are the forces that impact surface currents?
What is solar heating, gravity, winds, Coriolis effect.
200
What percent of the worlds ice is locked on Antarctica?
What is 90%.
300
Define kinetic energy.
What is energy a moving object has because it is in motion.
300
Energy cannot be created or destroyed, only changed from one form to another. What law of thermodynamics is this?
What is the first law of thermodynamics.
300
List three factors that are used to classify climate of an area.
What is average temperature, average precipitation, seasonal changes.
300
Where does the Gulf Stream transport warm water to?
What is Iceland and the British Isles.
300
What role does CO2 have in climate change?
What is as CO2 increases, the greenhouse gas traps solar energy in the atmosphere, warming the earth.
400
Define mechanical energy.
What is energy possessed by an object due to its motion or position.
400
As energy is transferred it becomes less and less useful, what law of thermodynamics is this?
What is the second law of thermodynamics.
400
What is the difference between weather and climate?
What is climate is long-term and weather is short-term.
400
What are the two characteristics that impact deep ocean currents movement?
What is temperature and salinity.
400
What are the natural factors of climate change?
What is position of the continents, Milankovitch cycles (solar cycles), volcanic eruptions, variations in solar output, ENSO events.
500
Define gravitational potential energy and state its equation.
What is energy stored in objects because of their position above earths surface. Equation: mgh.
500
How do kinetic energy and potential energy change in a skate park?
What is the higher the skater is on the track, the more potential energy he possesses and less kinetic energy. Vice versa when he is at the bottom middle of the skate track.
500
What type of weather comes with low pressure?
What is storms, warm, humid, and clouds.
500
What is the difference of upwelling and downwelling?
What is upwelling is the movement of deep water to the surface and downwelling is the movement of surface water down.
500
How can Earths tilt affect climate change?
What is as the tilt becomes steeper, it will cause less seasonal differences, and the pole/tropics differences increase.