11.3

Question 1

Heat capacity?

Answer 1

Measure of how long it takes for a material to heat up or cool down

Question 2

What is the reason for the oceans warmth?

Answer 2

Heat capacity

Question 3

How long does it take for the ocean to heat up or cool down?

Answer 3

A long time

Question 4

What do The ocean and atmosphere exchange water in its various forms through? What are the exchanging?

Answer 4

The water cycle

Exchanging energy

Question 5

Weather?

Answer 5

The condition of the atmosphere at a specific time

Question 6

How does weather happen?

Answer 6

Moisture reach the atmosphere through evaporation from the oceans, and the water eventually return to the ocean by precipitation in the atmosphere

Question 7

How can Weather be described?

Answer 7

Weather can be described in terms of temperature, windspeed and direction, air pressure, and moisture (precipitation)

Question 8

Climate?

Answer 8

When weather in a particular region is averaged over a long period of time (such as 30 years or more) its main characteristics are together referred to as climate

Question 9

What is the average temperature on earths surface?

Answer 9

15°C

Question 10

What is the hottest temperature that ever occurred on earths surface? Where? When?

Answer 10

58°C
El Asizia, Libya
1922

Question 11

What is the coldest temperature that ever occurred on earth? Where? When?

Answer 11

-90°C
Vostok, Antarctica
1988

Question 12

What is the process of Convection? What is the mass of warm air called?

Answer 12

As the sun heats the surface of the ocean, some of this heat is transferred to the air above. As air over warm ocean water gets warm, it starts to rise upward like a bubble.
The mass of warm air is called a thermal

Question 13

What happens when thermals reach the cooler levels in the atmosphere? What happens to the cooler air?

Answer 13

If they lose their heat and some of their ability to rise

The cooler the same sinks towards the oceans surface , where it gets reheated and the cycle begins again

Question 14

Convection?

Answer 14

The process of heat transfer In air

Question 15

What is a good example of how oceans, atmosphere, and weather interacts?

Answer 15

El Niño

El Nina

Question 16

El Niño?

Answer 16

Refers to the warm ocean waters of the coast of Ecuador and Peru that occur every year around Christmas time

Question 17

How long does El Niño usually last? How does it end?

Answer 17

2-4 weeks

Then the warm waters are replaced by cooler waters

Question 18

What happens where when El Niño occur?

Answer 18

The temperature of the ocean surface warms up in this area near the equator, extending in a current from the coast of South America all the way to the Middle of the Pacific Ocean

Question 19

What does El Niño usually lead to?

Answer 19

Weird weather patterns

Question 20

What does El Niño open responsible for?

Answer 20

Changing patterns of rainfall around the world, and creating conditions that have led to more droughts and fires in Australia, Africa, and central America

Question 21

How does El Niño effect sea creatures?

Answer 21

The warmer waters force the smaller ocean organisms to move deeper into cooler water. The fish and other marine life that feed on these organisms have to follow them in order to survive.

Question 22

How does El Niño effect on fish affect humans?

Answer 22

The resulting changes of migration patterns of fish has caused entire commercial fishing industries along the coast of north and South America to cut back or close down

Question 23

La Niña?

Answer 23

When upwelling causes colder than usual waters to come to the coast of South America

Question 24

What do oceans affect?

Answer 24

Weather and climate

Question 25

Why does oceans stay warmer in the fall months and into the winter than the land masses do?

Answer 25

Because of the waters high heat capacity

Question 26

How does the Gulf Stream moderate of the British isles and Norway?

Answer 26

The golf stream is a current of ocean water that runs north from the equator and up the east coast of Canada. Cold water currents from Greenland and the arctic cause the Gulf Stream to veer eastward towards the British isles and Northern Europe. Even the coastal parts of Norway that are north of the Arctic circle rarely experience freezing temperatures in the winter. Meanwhile, the neighbouring regions of Finland and Sweden have very cold winters dominated by the influence of arctic air masses

Question 27

Why does the coast and southwest corner of British Columbia usually stay mild in the winter? What is this current called? What does this current bring?

Answer 27

Waters in the Pacific ocean start warming the equator, flow westward, then circle north past the philipeans and Japan.
Pacific drift
Brings warm waters towards the north west closest of North America

Question 28

What does the Alaskan current do?

Answer 28

Pushes the water down along the British Columbia coast. Winds from the ocean push large masses of this warm ocean air over the province. The result is that the moisture and heat energy brought in by the ocean keeps the climate of the coast from being extremely hot in the summer or extremely cold in the winter

Question 29

What keeps the moist air from coming into the interior of bc?

Answer 29

The coastal mountain ranges