Climate Change
In your own words, why has climate change become a political issue?
Cold water, because the molecules in the water are receiving less energy and cluster together much closer than the hot water.
What kind of storm is like a hurricane but occurs over land instead of the sea?
Nor'easter
A section of air that is horizontal and has uniform temperature density throughout.
What year was the "Empire Strikes Back" released in theaters?
1980
A "footprint" of how much carbon that you as an individual put into the atmosphere.
In your own words, what is Volume?
How much space something takes up
What are some issues Tornados have when trying to form in big cities?
Tornados need flat open land for the air masses to push apart from one another to form the tornado. Cities are not wide open enough to sustain the tornado.
In your own words, what is a weather front?
The leading edge of an air mass, usually includes the most extreme weather
What is the famous line that is used in EVERY Star Wars movie?
"I have a bad feeling about this"
If you were to look at glaciers from 20 years ago and compare them to today, what would you probably find?
That the glacier has melted at a very fast pace over the course of 20 years due to a rise in temperature
If I were to have two buckets: one full of ice cold water and one of almost boiling hot water. I put one drop of food coloring in each bucket. What bucket will see the color spread out faster?
The hot water. More energy is added to the hot water, helping the coloring spread out faster than in the cold water with less energy.
What kind of extreme weather can form in a desert?
Sand Storm or Haboob
Where would a maritime front form?
Over or near an ocean.
In Return of the Jedi, what forest moon do the rebels infiltrate to help bring down the second Death Star?
The forest moon of Endor
What role do UV rays play in climate change?
UV rays become trapped within our atmosphere, creating warmer temperatures than normal
Find the Density:
Mass: 25.5g Volume: 12.4mL Density:________
2.05g/mL
What conditions cause a Thunderstorm?
Hot air from the south mixing with cold air from the north
What two letters would you use to represent a continental polar front?
cP
What kind of weapon does Chewbacca use in every Star Wars film?
A Bowcaster
What was the name of the Vice President who made the documentary "An Inconvenient Truth"?
Al Gore
If the density of a diamond is 3.5 g/cm3, what would be the mass of a diamond whose volume is 0.5 cm3?
1.8g
This kind of extreme weather occurs when an area sees a large amount of rainfall over a short period of time:
Flash Floods
What two letters would represent a maritime tropical front?
mT
What NFL quarterback was tragically traded from the Seattle Seahawks to the Denver Broncos this past month?