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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Albedo | Higher albedo has more reflection, lower albedo has less reflection |
| where is the most solar radiation concentrated? | The equator |
| What happens to solar radiation as it goes to the poles? | It spreads out and gets colder |
| What causes land and sea breezes? | The heating and cooling of land quicker than water |
| What causes the corolis effect? | Earths rotation |
| What are the prevailing westerlies? | Winds that blow west to east that blow 30 degrees and 60 degrees north and south. |
| What is a high pressure system and what does it bring? | Air sinking that makes it difficult for clouds to form, allowing clear weather |
| What is a low pressure system? | rising warm air that brings clouds and precipitation. |
| How are weather and climate related? | Climate is the long-term average weather, while weather is a day to day thing. |
| How is climate determined? | average temperatures, vegetation, and the amount of percipitation |
| Describe climate in your area? | It gets about 90 degrees in the summer every year. |
| What is weather? | weather is day to day atmospheric conditions |
| rainshadowing | an area of low rainfall on the downhill side of a moutain |
| how is global warming determined? | Its the measurement of Earth's temperature over the last 100 years. |
| What does a cold front bring? | Intense precipitation and intense thunderstorms |
| what does a warm front bring? | steady rain, and rain showers |
| What is a result of melting ice sheets? | The rise of sea level |
| What happens to earths solar energy? | it can reflect back to space, absorbs into the atmosphere, land in water or land |
| Which has more constant temp costal or inland? | Costal cities |
| what causes wind? | The movement of air from places of high pressure to low pressure areas |
| what does wind causes? | Surface currents |