ENGR 10610 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: South Equatorial Current, Ocean Current, Wind Chill
23 Dec 2018
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Therefore, wind chill temperatures are lower than regular temperatures: heating and cooling engineers use degree-days. Pacific ocean: definition - a coupled atmospheric and oceanic phenomenon in which current, occurs every two to seven years, normal situation without el nino? direction a. 100,000 years. polarity of the solar magnetic field over a 22-year cycle. The direction in which the earth"s axis points in space changes with an effective period of 23,000 years: changes in the sun, sunspot cycle, sunspots change in number in an 11-year cycle. Evidence for climate change in the distant past: tillites = sedimentary rocks laid down by glaciers that are composed of a mix of boulders, pebbles and small grains. (the sediment is called till. ) 5: striations and grooving on bedrock, conclusion: climate changes have occurred in the past. In the late proterozoic, the whole earth may have been ice-covered for a period of time (called the.
