short-term properties of the troposphere at a given place?
100
Atmospheric Circulation
large-scale movement of air, which heat is distributed on the surface of the Earth?
100
El Niño and the Southern Oscillation
two terms, often combined into a single phrase, the El Niño-Southern Oscillation, or ENSO for short.
200
The earth's atmosphere near the surface is composed primarily of _________ & ____________.
Nitrogen and Oxygen
200
Air pressure
Gravity pushes the layers of air down on the earth's surface. This push is called?
200
climate
physical properties of the troposphere of an area based on its weather records over a long period
200
Unequal absorption of the Sun’s radiation by Earth’s surface
Differences of temperature, the cause of the pressure differences, are due to?
200
El Niño
first coined more than 100 years ago to describe the unusually warm waters that would occasionally form along the coast of Ecuador and Peru.
300
Nitrous Oxide - 78.08%
Oxygen - 20.95%
Nitrous Oxide & Oxygen Makes up how much percent of the earths atmosphere?
300
Below 32 kilometers
Mass of the atmosphere ?
300
The way air circulates over the earths surface
Temperature and precipitation patterns that lead to different climates are caused by
300
the heat is carried away from the hot area to a cooler one
Earth heats unequally because
300
counterpart to El Niño and is characterized by cooler than normal SSTs across much of the equatorial eastern and central Pacific.
La Niña
400
nitrogen fixing bacteria
Nitrogen is removed from the atmosphere and deposited at the Earth's surface mainly by specialized _____________________________
400
This is where we live and where weather occurs
Troposphere
400
Green house effect
natural trapping of heat in the troposphere
400
Temperature gradient...
the rate of temperature change with distance in any given direction at any point.
400
warmer than average sea surface temperatures cover the central and eastern tropical Pacific
El Niño conditions
500
photosynthesis and respiration
Oxygen is exchanged between the atmosphere and life through the processes of ?
500
Highest atmosphere zone
Magnetosphere
500
because the earth’s axis is tilted
Seasonal changes occur
500
Coriolis
deflection of moving objects when they are viewed in a rotating reference frame?
500
thought of as an enhancement of normal conditions. During these events, the easterlies strengthen, colder than average ocean water extends westward to the central Pacific,