Weather
What is convection?
This is an example of a greenhouse gas
What is water vapour/carbon dioxide/methane/nitrous oxide?
This is one human action that produces carbon dioxide
What is fossil fuel burning (or anything related)?
This is where you will find the independent variable on a graph
What is the x axis?
Day and night are caused by this
Earth's rotation around itself
This is something that adds carbon into the atmosphere that is not a human action.
What is respiration or organism decay?
What is one human action that adds methane into the atmosphere?
This is where you will find the dependent variable on a graph
What is the y axis?
Seasons are caused by this
What is the Earth's tilted rotation around the sun - sometimes the Northern hemisphere is pointed towards the sun, sometimes it is pointed away.
This is what causes a warm fluid to rise above a colder fluid
What is density?
These two processes are what cause greenhouse gases to "trap heat" in the atmosphere.
What is absorption and re-emission (of infrared radiation)?
This is one thing humans could do to reduce the impact of climate change.
Reduce carbon emissions
If you were to graph amount of carbon dioxide on the x axis and the temperature of the Earth on the y axis, the trendline would look like this.
What is going up/diagonal line up
This is the concept that scientists use to describe that Earth is the perfect distance from the sun
What is the Goldilock's Zone?
Higher temperatures can cause both floods and droughts because of this
What is increased evaporation in one area, therefore more water in clouds, therefore more precipitation in another area.
Where does the outgoing infrared radiation that the Earth emits come from?
What are high winds and large cloud formation?
If you were to graph number of trees cut down and carbon stored in a forest, what would the trendline look like?
Going down/diagonal down
Weather patterns over a long period of time (at least 30 years).
This is the definition of weather
What is the state of the atmosphere at a specific time (temperature, precipitation, cloud coverage, wind, etc.)
How do increased clouds affect temperatures on Earth?
Lower temperatures: more solar radiation is reflected off the clouds, which means less radiation reaches the Earth, which means the Earth is cooler.
Warmer temperatures: less infrared radiation escapes through the atmosphere and is reflected back to Earth by the clouds.
What is one reason why there is life on Earth?
This is what WIS/WIM stands for and how it should be used
What is What I See/What it Means and it is used to analyse a graph
The average temperatures and humidity of an area