EARTHSS 15 Midterm: Midterm 1 Study Guide
12 May 2017
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The climate is very complex but the basic physics of climate change are not that hard to understand. So to figure it out, first we have to ask ourselves the following question: what"s the difference between the weather and the climate: if you don"t like the climate move! : climate is a place, a location. It depends on where you live, your longitude, latitude and altitude. It changes very slowly and it"s very predictable. For example: we can predict that phoenix is warmer than fargo for the same reasons that we can predict a warmer future. Day is warmer than night, summer is warmer than winter and phoenix is warmer than fargo. Nearly all of the air is made of oxygen (o2) and nitrogen (n2) in which two atoms of the same element share electrons. Infrared (heat) energy radiated up from the surface can be absorbed by these molecules, but not very well.
