CH 5

Question 1

What is temperature

Answer 1

It is a measure of heat.

it is related to the amount of energy in a substance.

Question 2

Heat flows from where to where

Answer 2

from higher temperatures to lower

Question 3

List the factors that affect earth’s temperature’s patterns

Answer 3

• latitude
• altitude
• elevation
• cloud cover
• land water

Question 3

What do they use to measure outdoor temperatures?

Answer 3

mercury and alcohol thermometers

Question 4

What areas are colder

high up in the mountains or low near the water?

Answer 4

Up in the mountains is colder than low near the ocean

Question 5

Land-water heating difference:

Answer 5

the physical difference between land and water, and how they absorb heat.

Land heats and cools faster than water

Question 6

Since water is transparent, what difference does it have compared to land surface?

Answer 6

when energy hits the soil, it is only hot on the surface, but deeper down it gets cool again like the sand in a beach. But with water if energy hits its surface, it is going to penetrate quickly and make the whole body increase in temperature

Question 7

Specific heat:

Answer 7

The heat capacity of something

Question 8

how does evaporation cause more heat?

Answer 8

more evaporation causes more water vaper which is easy to absorb longwave radiation so that could cause heat too

Question 9

How does evaporation cause lower temperatures?

Answer 9

more evaporation can also cause lower temperature by the water vapor forming clouds which reflect radiation

Question 10

What is the marine effect?

Answer 10

moderating influences of the ocean and usually occurs in locations along coastlines or on islands.

Question 11

What is the continental effect?

Answer 11

The greater range between maximum and minimum temperatures on both a daily and a yearly basis that occurs in areas that are inland from the ocean or distant from other large water bodies

Question 12

Isotherm:

Answer 12

a line along which there is a constant value—that connects points of equal temperature to portray the temperature pattern

Question 13

What is the difference between temperature and heat?

Answer 13

Temperature refers to the measure of the average kinetic energy of the molecules in a substance while heat refers to the transfer of energy between substances due to a difference in temperature

Question 14

What are the 3 scales that express temperature?

Answer 14

Celsius, Fahrenheit, and kelvin

Question 15

List the physical characteristics of land and water that produce their different responses to heating from absorption of insolation. What is the specific effect of transparency in a medium?

Answer 15

Water has a higher specific heat capacity than land. It needs more energy to heat than land, and therefore takes longer to heat and cool than land.

Question 16

What effect does sea-surface temperature have on air temperature? Describe the negative feedback mechanism created by higher sea-surface temperatures and evaporation rates?

Answer 16

Heat transfer, humidity levels, weather patterns. Some negative feedback mechanisms like Increased evaporation, increased cloud cover, latent heat release, and regulating temperature extremes