Unit 5 Climate and Weather
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| Air Pressure | A force exerted by moving air molecules.
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| convection | The method of heat transfer through a fluid due to density differences.
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| conduction | A method of heat transfer through direct contact. (must be touching)
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| radiation | Energy that comes from a source and travels through some material or through space. Light, heat and sound are types of radiation.
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| wind | The horizontal movement of air caused by differences in air pressure. It moves from higher pressure to lower pressure areas.
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| weather | The condition of Earth's atmosphere at a particular time and place.
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| climate | The characteristic weather conditions in an area over a long period of time.
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| Coriolis Effect | The influence of Earth's rotation on objects that move over earth. This causes currents to move clockwise in the northern hemisphere and counter-clockwise in the southern hemisphere.
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| Jet Stream | A narrow, variable band of very strong, predominantly westerly air currents encircling the globe several miles above the earth.
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| Earth's Axis | the imaginary line which goes through the north and south poles and around which Earth spins.
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| Orbit | The curved path of a celestial object or spacecraft around a star, planet, or moon
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| Rotation | The action of rotating around an axis or center
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| Absorption | The process or action by which one thing absorbs or is absorbed by another
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| Air Mass | A body of air with horizontally uniform levels of temperature, humidity, and pressure.
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| Weather fronts | a boundary separating two masses of air of different densities
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