Class 2b: Temperature and insolation

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Class 2b Temperature and insolation
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What is temperature?
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How does heat energy move?

• Conduction
• Convection

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How does heat energy move?

• Adiabatic cooling and warming

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How does heat energy move?

• Latent heat (hidden heat)

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Solar energy
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Solar energy
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Energy pathways

• Insolation

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Energy pathways
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Ozone and UV light
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Ozone and UV light
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Energy pathways
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Greenhouse effect
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Why is the sky blue?
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Energy pathways

• Does energy reach all parts of the Earths
  surface equally?

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Latitude and insolation
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Spatial variation of insolation

• High latitudes (above 60)

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Spatial variation of insolation

• Middle latitudes (30-60)
• Low latitudes (below 30)

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Land vs. water
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Land vs. water

• Continental vs. maritime climates