1. Explain why atmospheric pressure always decreases with increasing altitude. Because the higher you get the more room there is between molecules‚ which means less weight from above. Basically the air gets thinner the higher you get‚ so there is less pressure. 2. Why is the decrease of air pressure with increasing altitude more rapid when the air is cold? Cold air is associated with low pressure. So the inherently low-pressure air loses pressure more rapidly as the altitude increases. Air pressure
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LAB ACTIVITY: Coastal and Continental Temperature Ranges ANALYSIS: 1) I can tell from the temperature curves that the cities are all in the Northern Hemisphere because it ranges from low to high then back to low again starting in January. 2) The city that has the greatest yearly temperature range is Bismarck‚ N.D. 3) The cause of the greatest range is because the location is located most near the pole. 4) The rates of heating and cooling do not differ much for New York
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There are many reasons I would like to go on the field trip to Hawaii. The first reason is I love to travel and see new things. This trip would be a dream vacation come true for anyone! The first six days look amazing with seven things on the list that I have never done before. Then the camping for six days sounds wonderful with farming‚ horseback riding‚ and snorkeling‚ I have only gone horseback riding once and it was fun‚ plus my family is involved with horses so I know a lot about them! Every
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A basic understanding of the concept of "the Dreamtime" or Creation period is an important part of recognizing the inextricable bond traditional Aborigines have for the land and their culture. Traditional Aborigines believe the earth‚ like the sky‚ always existed and was the home of supernatural beings. At the beginning of time the earth looked like a featureless‚ desolate plain. Nothing existed on the surface. The earth was covered in eternal darkness as the sun and moon were still slumbering under
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► USE THE “A Printable Latitude & Longitude Map of the World” TO ANSWER QUESTIONS 1-5. As well as the rest of the Power Point. 1. List the seven large landmasses known as continents. 1.___North America___ 2.___South America____ 3._____Asia_______ 2. The Prime_ Meridian_ is the line of longitude that divides the Eastern Hemisphere from the Western Hemisphere. 3. Which two continents lie completely in the Southern Hemisphere? _____Australia and Antarctica__
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Examine Figure 9.4 in your textbook. What do you think is the cause of the “dip” (i.e.‚ decrease) in salinity around the equator? Could it not be argued that higher temperature causes more evaporation from the ocean surface‚ which‚ in turn‚ results in higher salinity content? Figure 9.4 shows how the surface temperature of the ocean and the surface salinity change with latitudinal position. Salinity the measure of the concentration of dissolved salts in the ocean water. Salinity influences where
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If you could stand at the surface of Mars’ equator‚ you would feel like it is summertime at the bottom part of your body and wintertime at the top part! This is so because the temperature at the upper part of your body can be 0°Celsius‚ while that in at your feet can be 21 degrees Celsius. When it is snowing‚ the snow can vaporize before it reaches the ground. The place is a desert but a cold‚ cold one. Mars has so many impact craters on its surface‚ the largest of which is the Borealis basin.
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CONVERGENCE ZONE The Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) is the area encircling the earth near the equator where winds originating in the northern and southern hemispheres come together. Consequences of the ITCZ’s movement are the "monsoon seasons" that affect areas in the tropics‚ as well as the formation of tropical storms during the local hemispheric summer (north or south of the equator). Navigators in the age of sail learned to utilize the "trade winds" that blow to the east along the edge
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How Our Skins Got Their Color Summary This article states on how we got our skin color. In this article Marvin Harris described how the pigment of our skin originates where we live around the equator. If someone lives around the equator they have high risk of getting rickets‚ or osteomalacia. For example‚ if someone was light skinned living in Australia your chances of getting melanoma is high. The reason the risk is high for light pigmented skin living in Australia‚ is because many of them wear
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geologist to calculate the origin of the glacier within 10 degrees of the equator. However‚ some sceptic believes this is not conclusive evidence as they question the accuracy of the data because Earth’s magnetic has changed during the course of time and the continental drift has now become dipolar. We are able to come to a conclusion that the data collected do indicate that the Marinoan glaciation was very close to the equator therby giving us an idea of the temperatures of the warmest regions of the
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