Main Questions
Atmosphere
1. Why are there seasons?
2. What is the Coriolis effect?
3. What makes air in the atmosphere move?
4. How does a hurricane form?
5. Are sea ice and icebergs different?
6. What does the greenhouse effect have to do with greenhouses?
Ocean Currents
7. What are the different types of ocean currents?
8. What factors affect the currents? How? |
Main Concepts
- Air and Sea Interactions
- The atmosphere and ocean act as one system
- The Sun heats the Earth unequally
- Coriolis Effect
- Atmospheric circulation
- Oceans-weather and climate
- Sea ice
- Icebergs
- Greenhouse Effect/Climate Change
- Ocean Circulation
- Ocean Currents
- Measurement
- Surface currents
- Upwelling and downwelling
- Deep currents
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Vocabulary
Air Sea Interactions
Air mass, Antarctic Circle, Anticyclonic flow, Arctic Circle, Autmnal equinox, climate, cold front, convection cell, Coriolis effect, cyclone, doldrums, equitorial, equitorial low, eye, fast ice, ferrel cell, greenhouse effect, hadley cell, heat budget, horse lattitudes, hurricane, ice floe, iceberg, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, intertropical convergent zone, iron hypothesis, jet stream, Kyoto Protocol, land breeze, Northeast trade winds, pack ice, pancake ice, polar, polar cell, polar easterly wind belt, polar front, polar high, polar ice, prevailing Westerly wind belt, Saffir-Simpson Scale, sea breeze, sea ice, shelf ice, Southeast trade winds, storm surge, storm, subpolar, subpolar low, subtropical, subtropical high, summer solstice, temperature, Titanic RMS, trade winds, Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn, tropical, tropical cyclone, tropics, troposphere, typhoon, vernal equinox, warm front, weather, winter solstice
Ocean Circulation
Agulhas Current, Alaskan Current, Antarctic bottom water, Antarctic Circumpolar current, Antarctic convergence, Antarctic Divergence, Antarctic intermediate water, Arctic convergence, Benguela current, Brazil current, California current,
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Schedule
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