The Atmosphere
78% nitrogen, 21% oxygen and 1% trace gases.
What gases make up the Earth's atmosphere?
Air movements towards the equator.
Trade winds
By using the average weather records over 30 to 35 years.
Over what timeframe is average climate calculated?
Cool temperate Oceanic Climate.
What is Ireland's climate type?
Rising sea levels, Increasing temperatures, more extreme weather patterns and wildfires, but to name a few.
What are the implications of climate change?
In the stratosphere.
In what layer of the atmosphere can you find the ozone layer?
What is Ireland's prevailing wind type?
The distance of a place north or south of the equator.
What is latitude?
Human activity.
What is largely responsible for the increase in greenhouse gases in the atmosphere?
In December 2015.
When was the Paris Agreement signed?
The Earth's main source of heat.
Solar energy.
Large moving pockets of air that are distinct from the surrounding atmosphere.
What are air masses?
Distance from the sea, Prevailing winds and air masses and latitude.
What are the factors that influence global climates?
The natural process where certain atmospheric gases trap heat by absorbing and re-emitting thermal radiation from the Earth's surface
What is the Greenhouse Effect?
A warm current from the Gulf of Mexico. It keeps our temperatures warmer and influences rainfall.
What is the North Atlantic Drift?
365 and a quarter days.
How often does the Earth orbit the sun?
Air masses from the north pole bringing cold weather conditions.
What is an Arctic air mass?
They are factors that influence local climates.
What are altitude and aspect?
The changing ocean current patterns, Earth’s changing orbit and tilt, and volcanic activity blocking the sun.
What factors influence climate change?
A set of global priorities created by the UN that the whole world must focus on between 2015 and 2030
What are the Sustainable Development Goals?
The movement of air of the surface of the Earth.
What is wind?
Lines on a weather map which join together places of equal atmospheric pressure.
What are isobars?
South facing slopes.
Which slope orientation receives the most sunlight in the Northern Hemisphere?
This gas is produced by bacteria that feast on decomposing organic matter when there is no oxygen present.
What is methane?
The most dangerous of the greenhouse gases
What are CFCs or Chlorofluorocarbons?