Climate
Which two climates are considered DRY?
polar and dry
Which happens at night? Sea breeze or land breeze?
What are currents?
Regular movements of large amounts of ocean water
Where in a reference book should I look to find out what page number a topic is on?
the index
What layer of the atmosphere does most weather occur?
troposphere
What is the difference between weather and climate and how do they connect?
Weather is the short-term conditions of the atmosphere, like temperature, rain, and wind, happening in a specific place at a specific time. Climate is the long-term pattern of weather in a region over many years. They are connected because climate is the average of all the weather over time—so daily weather helps shape a region's climate!
What type of heat transfer causes land breezes and sea breezes?
Convection
What labs or activities would help me answer a question about deep ocean currents? (name 2)
Investigating water lab and ocean currents reading
What is climate change?
Climate change is the long-term shift in Earth's weather patterns and temperatures, mainly caused by human activities like burning fossil fuels.
What lab or activity would I look to to find an answer about Earth's atmosphere? (name 2)
History of Earth's Atmosphere and Atmosphere and Climate
What is the most common climate type in the United State?
mild
What activities would help me answer a question about sea breezes and land breezes (local breezes)?
Gizmos: Coastal Winds and Clouds
These are large, slow-moving ocean currents that circulate near the surface of the ocean, helping distribute heat around the Earth.
What are surface currents?
What is the greenhouse effect?
Greenhouse gases (like carbon dioxide, methane, and water vapor) trap heat in Earth's atmosphere, making the planet warmer. This process is called the greenhouse effect.
This layer of the atmosphere contains the ozone layer, which helps protect Earth from harmful ultraviolet (UV) radiation
What is stratosphere?
Page 25
precipitation and temperature
Explain sea breeze and day breeze and include what direction the wind is coming from.
Sea Breeze (Daytime Breeze) 🌊➡️🏝️
What happens?
During the day, the land heats up faster than the ocean, so the air over the land becomes warmer. Warm air rises, and cooler air from the sea moves in to replace it, creating a wind that blows from the sea to the land. This is called a sea breeze.
Direction of wind: From the sea to the land
Land Breeze (Nighttime Breeze) 🏝️➡️🌊
What happens?
At night, the land cools down faster than the ocean, so the air over the land becomes cooler. The cooler air from the land moves toward the ocean to replace the warmer air over the water, creating a wind that blows from the land to the sea. This is called a land breeze.
Direction of wind: From the land to the sea
What are 2 factors that causes water to become more dense and what type of currents would these factors create?
temperature and salinity - deep ocean currents
What activities would help you answer a question about climate change? (name 2)
Greenhouse Gases Doodle Notes and Climate Change: Causes, Effects, and Solutions Reading
What are the primary gases in the atmosphere?
nitrogen, oxygen, argon, and water vapor
What are 3 factors that would cause a climate zone to be cooler than it's surrounding areas?
higher elevation, windward side (rain shadow), proximity to cooler bodies of water, cold ocean currents, latitude (further away from the equator)
Why do winds and ocean currents curve instead of moving in a straight line?
The Coriolis Effect
What factor affects surface currents?
Explain correlation and causation
Correlation means that two things happen at the same time or seem related, but one does not necessarily cause the other. Causation means that one thing directly causes another to happen.
This process, which began around 2 to 3 billion years ago, helped to gradually increase the amount of oxygen in the Earth's atmosphere and decrease the level of carbon dioxide, as early organisms began to convert carbon dioxide and water into oxygen and sugar using sunlight.
What is photosynthesis?