Chapter 28

Question 1

A climate that is strongly affected by an ocean.

Answer 1

Maritime Climate.

Question 2

A climate that is not directly affected by an ocean.

Answer 2

Continental climate.

Question 3

A breeze that blows from over the water toward land in the afternoon.

Answer 3

Sea Breeze

Question 4

A narrow band of fast moving high-altitude air.

Answer 4

Jet stream

Question 5

The apparent deflection of an object due to the earths rotation.

Answer 5

Coriolis effect

Question 6

A large volume of air with uniform moisture and tempiture.

Answer 6

Air mass.

Question 7

Air masses interact

Answer 7

Weather fronts

Question 8

What is climate?

Answer 8

The long-term avarage of weather conditions.

Question 9

What is weather?

Answer 9

Day to day outside condition.

Question 10

What are the five sphere for earths systems?

Answer 10

Atmospher, Cryosphere, lithosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere.

Question 11

What is the atmosphere?

Answer 11

The air around us.

Question 12

What is the Biosphere?

Answer 12

Everything organic.

Question 13

What is the Hydrosphere?

Answer 13

Liquid

Question 14

What is the cryosphere?

Answer 14

Frozen water, snow, ice, glaciers.

Question 15

What is the lithosphere?

Answer 15

Earths outermost layer.

Question 16

What is the primary factor that influences climate at a given location?

Answer 16

latitude.

Question 17

Where is the solar radiation most intense on earth?

Answer 17

At the Equator.

Question 18

At what degrees do the sun rays hit earths surface at the tropic zone?

Answer 18

90 degrees.

Question 19

At what degrees do the suns rays hit earths surface at the temprate zone?

Answer 19

50 degrees.

Question 20

At what degrees do the sun rays hit earths surface at the polar zones?

Answer 20

30 degrees.

Question 21

What zone are we located in?

Answer 21

Temperate zone.

Question 22

What other factors determine climate?

Answer 22

Precipitation, Mountains, and Water.

Question 23

What is the windward side like on a mountain range?

Answer 23

Cool and wet, a lot of vegitation.

Question 24

What is the leeward side of a mountain like?

Answer 24

Warm and dry air, little to no vegitation.

Question 25

Which climate zone and what type of vegitation does Colorado have?

Answer 25

War semi-arid, and grassland

Question 26

Increase in the average temperatures of earths near-surface air and oceans.

Answer 26

Global warming.

Question 27

The warming of the Pacific Ocean off the coast of western south america that every 3-10 years.

Answer 27

El Nino

Question 28

The opposite of El Nino, occurs when trade winds in the pacific are usually strong and surface water is colder.

Answer 28

La Nina.

Question 29

What are two things that effect gravitational forces?

Answer 29

mass and distance.

Question 30

What diameiter of the earth is longer?

Answer 30

Equator.

Question 31

What is the distance between the two diameters?

Answer 31

42 killomiters | 26 miles

Question 32

What does a magnetic feild do for earth?

Answer 32

Protects us from harmful radiation from the sun.

Question 33

what magnetic pole is in the northern hemmesphere?

Answer 33

South magnetic pole.

Question 34

Can the magnetic poles flip?

Answer 34

Yes they can, they can happen up to every 200 years but its been 700 years sense the last flip.

Question 35

What is the flipping of the magnetic poles called?

Answer 35

Magnetic reversal.

Question 36

What is a magnetic sphere?

Answer 36

deflects harmful radiation from the sun.

Question 37

How are the aruoras created?

Answer 37

When electrically charged particals collide with attoms in the atmosphere.

Question 38

What is the scientific name of the northern lights?

Answer 38

Aurora borealis.

Question 39

What is the scientic name of the southern lights?

Answer 39

Aurora austalis.

Question 40

What hemisphere are the aurora borealis in?

Answer 40

Northern.

Question 41

What hemisphere is the auror austalis in?

Answer 41

Southern.

Question 42

When is earth closest to the sun?

Answer 42

Early January. 147 million killomiters away.

Question 43

When is earth farthest from the sun?

Answer 43

Early July. 152 million killomiters away.