What effect causes the winds in the Northern Hemisphere to curve clockwise?
What is Coriolis effect?
True or False Hot molecules move faster than cold molecules
What is True?
The space occupied by material.
What is volume?
Moving air
What is wind?
What global winds are located closest to the equator?
The 3 methods of heat transfer.
What are convection, conduction, and radiation?
High pressure movement to areas of low pressure
What is wind?
The long term weather conditions of an area over many years
Climate
Most the Earth's water is located here.
What is the ocean?
A boundary that separates air masses with different moisture content and temperatures
What is a weather front?
Greenhouse gases trap heat on Earth and make Earth warmer
What is the greenhouse effect?
Solar energy (heat) is transferred to the Earth through this type of heat transfer.
What is Radiation?
True or False Air moves from lower pressure to higher pressure.
What is False?
How convection currents work.
What is the transfer of heat through movement of fluid when heat rises and cold sinks
Earth's atmosphere is mostly what gas
What is nitrogen?
The temperature of the atmosphere as more carbon dioxide goes into the air
What is it increases?