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Causes wind to bend in a clockwise direction in the northern hemisphere.
What is Coriolis Effect?
21 % of the atmosphere is made of this gas.
What is Oxygen ?
When air pressure is low there are _______ clouds in the sky.
Fill in the blank: Less or More
What is more ?
Describe an area that has been defrosted.
Lower humidity, More extreme day & night temperatures, higher amounts of atmospheric carbon dioxide.
These three components: nitrogen, oxygen, and trace gases make up this.
What is the atmosphere ?
This is the layer of the atmosphere where weather happens.
What is the troposphere ?
An area of the earth that has large bands of rising air and low pressure.
What is Rain forest?
The reason hydrogen & hellium gases are found in the exosphere. (Think of a ballon)
They are lighter than other gases.
Tool used to measure air pressure.
What is barometer ?
This map shows air pressure readings.
PICK ONE: Streamline, Isothermic, Precipitation, Isobaric
What is Isobaric ? (D)
This process takes Carbon dioxide from the air and converts it into oxygen & sugars.
What Photosynthesis?
Meteors burn up in this layer of the atmosphere.
What Mesosphere ?
Name the layers of the atmosphere. Start from the earth and move upwards.
Troposphere, Stratosphere, Mesosphere, Thermosphere, Exosphere
This is the layer of the atmosphere where the ozone layer is located.
What is the stratosphere ?
Percentage of the atmosphere is made of oxygen gas
21%
If Florida is experiencing a warm, wet year this coul: be attributed to.
What is El nino?
This gas makes up most of the air we breathe.
What is nitrogen ?
The atmosphere is the largest reservoir for this nutrient.
What is Nitrogen ?
Name 3 greenhouse gases.
Water vapor, Carbon dioxide, & Methane
The direction of earth's axis in the winter.
What is earth's axis is tipping away from the sun.