Global energy is shaped by factors
Trapped in the Biosphere, latitude, transport of heat by wind and wave currents
Weather
Day to day conditions in the atmosphere
Climate
Long periods of time of average conditions
Main force That shapes our climate
Solar energy that arrives as sunlight and strikes earths surface
3 gases in our atmosphere
Water vapor, methane, and carbon dioxide
Green house gas contractions rise?
Falls?
Earth warms
Earth cools
Why is the equator always warm
Because the solar energy is intense as the sun is overhead at noon all year
Why do temperate and polar zones receive different amounts of solar energy
Because earths axis is tilted