Metaphors:
For wind: A crowd. When you're in a crowd and you're feeling too tightly packed, the natural reaction is to move somewhere with more space. This is exactly what air particles do, which causes wind.
For albedo: sunglasses. When you look at the world through sunglasses, its not as bright because the glasses are darker and won’t absorb the light before it hits your eyes. When you take them off, everything is much brighter and reflecting more light to your eyes
Analogies:
The Earth’s rotation does not affect an object’s motion horizontally, similar to when you’re in a moving car and you drop an object, it still drops straight down as it would when playing outside as the Earth rotates.
Water absorbing ultraviolet light is like your fingers pruning from being in the shower. When light hits the water, it immediately begins to absorb it, just as when we're in the shower and water hits our hands, our skin begins to absorb it and prune.
Scaling:
If Earth formed at midnight and the geologic time is scaled to minutes on a clock, humans have only been around since 11:59:59 pm, which is approximately 1 second.
The ratio of Jupiter to Earth is comparable to the ratio of a basketball court to a basketball.
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