Discuss the effect of ocean currents on movement of water to different parts of the globe. Show how the gulf stream emerges and warms most of the east coast of the USA. Discuss the driving of ocean currents. Explain how tropical water is warmer and raises the surface water by about 8 cm. Discuss gyres as large scale patterns of water circulation in the N and S hemispheres. Explain upwellings. Explain thermoline circulation and the effect warmer water has on western Europe.
Discuss how unequal heating and the coreolis effect drive ocean currents. Show how surface water currents move warm and cold water to different parts of the globe. Gulf coast water warms most of the east coast while the ocean currents affect primary production and adjacent continent climate. Ocean currents are driven by temperature, winds, coreolis effect, salinity, and continant lovcation.
Elicit human uses for land. Include agriculture, housing, industry, reaction, and mining. List and discuss some of the cons of land use and their consequences. Introduce the "tragedy of the commons" as applied to land use as well as water and air use.
Review adiabatic heating and cooling, and why these occur when air is rising or falling. Use diagrams to better explain the intertropical convergence zone of currents. Examine how the rain shadow forms as currents from the ocean impact upon a mountain range.
List, view diagrams, and discuss the 5 layers of the atmosphere starting from the closest, the troposphere to the farthest, the exosphere. List the factors present in each one which affect cooling, heating, solar radiation blockage, and the albedo affect. Discuss the 3 major causes of uneven warming. These include variation of the Earth's angle, the variation of surface area illuminated, and the albedo affect. Discuss how air currents are influenced by temperature change, how air currents carry warm and cold air to different regions, and how currents move moisture around the planet. Discuss the four properties that determine how air circulates. Introduce abiabatic cooling and heating along with latent heating, and their effects.
View and discuss the 5 layers of the atmosphere. The troposphere, the stratosphere, the mesosphere, the thermosphere, and the exosphere. list the major factors found in each layer dealing with density, heating, cooling, gravity, UV and IR radiation blockage. List and discuss the three primary causes of uneven warming. The variation of earth's angle,, the variation of surface area, and the albedo affect.
