Global Processes

2. What is the name of the zone of convergence of air masses along the equator?
4. What wavelengths are hot?
5. What tropic is found at 30 degrees North?
6. What tropic is found at 30 degrees South?
7. What kind of radiation is solar energy?
8. What word is short for incoming solar radiation?
9. What is a centre of high atmospheric pressure called?
11. What name is used for the effect that too much methane and carbon dioxide are having on the atmosphere?
13. In what zones can you expect to find clouds and rain?
15. 19 percent of insolation is absorbed by what?
16. What force deflects wind to the right in the northern hemisphere and to the left in the southern hemisphere?
20. What is the name for lines that connect areas of equal temperature?
21. Temeratures of locations near ocean areas are moderated by water's ability to slowly absord and slowly release heat energy.

1. In what zones can you expect to find good weather?
3. What is a centre of low atmospheric pressure called?
4. What point experiences the most direct solar rays?
6. Areas not located near large bodies of water exhibit large temperature fluctuations daily and yearly.
10. What is the change of atmospheric pressure, measured along a line at right angles to isobars, called?
12. What is the name for the event that causes warm water to return to South America from Australia, and results in poor fishing?
14. What does not change temperature quickly?
17. What warms and cools rapidly at a shallow level?
18. What is another word for an object's reflectivity?
19. What wavelengths are cool?