High pressure areas are usually associated with which kind of weather?
What are clear skies?
100
This warm water current brings heat to western Europe, making its climate warmer than is typical for its latitude.
What is the Gulf stream?
100
The atmosphere is made up mostly of this gas.
What is nitrogen?
200
An example of a global wind.
What are westerlies, trade winds, or polar easterlies?
200
Surface currents are pushed by ___.
What is the wind?
200
The boundary between two air masses.
What is a front?
200
One way in which climate is different than weather.
What is long-term average weather conditions as opposed to short-term conditions?
200
The two lowermost layers of the atmosphere. State the bottom-most layer first.
What are the troposphere and stratosphere?
300
Wind is air moving in a
What is a specific direction?
300
Warm-water currents and cold-water currents affect these two things.
What is weather and climate?
300
A large body of air that has uniform temperature, pressure, and humidity.
What is an air mass?
300
Name two factors that affect climate.
What is latitude, bodies of water, ocean currents or mountains.
300
The atmosphere is mainly heated by this type of heat transfer.
What is convection?
400
Wind is caused by this.
What is uneven heating of Earth, which causes pressure differences?
400
The upward movement of cold water from the ocean bottom which brings nutrients to the surface.
What is upwelling?
400
Which kind of front produces severe thunderstorms?
What is a cold front?
400
A climatic event where Pacific winds weaken and reverse.
What is El Nino?
400
What happens to temperature as you increase in altitude in the troposphere?
What is "it decreases"?
500
What causes global winds to curve, AND which direction do the winds curve in each hemisphere?
What is the Coriolis effect? Clockwise in the northern hemisphere and counterclockwise in the southern hemisphere.
500
About how long does it take to complete one cycle around the Great Ocean Conveyor Belt?
What is one thousand years?
500
Name three variables that affect weather. Double the points if you name all six!
What are temperature, precipitation, air pressure, humidity, cloud cover, and wind?
500
Earth's average global surface temperature is rising, possibly due to the increase in greenhouse gases in our atmosphere. This is called...
What is global warming?
500
Two reasons why the atmosphere is important to life on Earth.
What are 1) protects against harmful rays; 2) protects against meteors; 3) provides essentials gases for life; or 4) helps maintain a stable temperature range?