Atmosphere
(Wyatt)
(Wyatt)
As you rise in height atmospheric pressure
what is decreases
Where Hurricanes form most often
What is the Gulf of Mexico?
layer of the atmosphere where clouds form
what is the troposphere?
The three ways energy/heat transfers
What is Conduction, Convection, and Radiation?
This type of precipitation falls from clouds as ice crystals
What is snow?
colorful event that happens in the thermosphere
what is Aurora
The amount of categories hurricanes are sorted into
What is 5?
Thin, wispy clouds high in the atmosphere
What is a Cirrus cloud?
The boiling of water in degrees celsius
What is 100oC?
The most common form of precipitation, falls as water droplets
What is rain?
What is Nitrogen?
The name for the Great Plains relating to a specific weather event
What is tornado alley?
The height in which water vapor starts condensing into clouds
What is the condensation/cloud level?
The rising and sinking of an air parcel without exchanging heat with the environment
What is the Adiabatic Process?
Precipitation that evaporates before touching the ground is known as _________
What is virga?
The layer of the atmosphere between the Mesosphere and the Exosphere
What is the Thermosphere?
When a Hurricane changes categories quickly
What is Rapid Intensification?
Blanket like clouds that form in middling altitudes
What are Altostratus clouds?
Water has a high value of this property, meaning it takes a lot of energy to change it's temperature
What is Specific Heat Capacity?
Small particles such as dust or salt that help cloud droplets form
What are condensation nuclei?
The Coriolis effect is primarily caused by this motion of the Earth.
What is the Earth's rotation?
When the normal east-to west winds in the Pacific weaken or reverse
What is El Nino?
This cloud type combines the latin words for "heap" and "rain"
What is a Cumulonimbus cloud?
This temperature scale begins at absolute zero
What is the Kelvin Scale?
The process in which precipitation is made through both supercooled cloud droplets AND ice crystals
What is the Bergeron process?