U10 Climate Vocab

The Sun's electro magnetic energy

• Insolation

• Radiation

• Gyre

• Inland

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

NGSS.MS-ESS3-5

Downside of a mountain range

• windward

• inland

• Leeward

• Re-radiation

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

Energy bouncing off the surface

• Radiation

• reflect

• Coastal

• Climate

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS4-2

a period where there is warmer temperatures in the Pacific Ocean along the west coast of South America causing changes in climate due to weakening of equatorial winds

• Gyre

• leeward

• infared

• el nino

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

visible heat

• infared

• re-radiation

• reflection

• windward

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-4

NGSS.MS-PS3-3

Convection of surface ocean currents

• El nino

• El chapo

• Gyre

• absorb

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

The process where heat waves that are radiated by the Earth are trapped by gases such as carbon dioxide and water vapor in the atmosphere

• Absorb

• Greenhouse Effect

• Specific heat

• Direct

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS2-2

NGSS.HS-ESS2-4

NGSS.HS-ESS2-6

How high the sun is in the sky

• Altitude

• Latitude

• Longitude

• Infared

Taking in heat and warming up

• Radiation

• Reflection

• Absorb

• Infrared

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-4

The amount of energy needed to change a temperature

• Specific Heat

• Climate

• Monsoon

• Green house gas

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-4

NGSS.MS-PS3-4