Miscellanious
Atmosphere layers
Atmosphere Composition
Heat Transfer
Weather Symbols
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What types of weather and skies are associated with high-pressure areas?
Nice weather, Sunny Skies
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What does "The state of the atmosphere" mean?
Weather
100
What is the most abundant gas in the atmosphere?
Nitrogen
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What is the transfer of heat through the movement of gases and liquids?
Convection
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What is this symbol called?
Weather station model
200
What 3 factors affect cloud formation?
Temperature, Water vapor, and air pressure
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What are the 7 layers in the atmosphere?
Troposphere, Stratosphere, Ozone Layer, Mesosphere, Thermosphere, Ionosphere, Exosphere.
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What gases are present in very small amounts?
Trace gases
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What is the transfer of heat through direct contact?
Conduction
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What does this weather map symbol represent?
Cold front
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Which Radiation with the longest wavelengths can be felt as heat?
Infrared Radiation
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Which layer is warmed by the earth?
Troposphere
300
Example of a trace gas?
CO2
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What is the transfer of heat from something hot to something cold through electromagnetic waves?
Radiation
300
What does this weather map symbol represent?
Warm front
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What is the natural warming of the earth through trapped gases in the atmosphere?
The Greenhouse Effect
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What is the warmest layer of the atmosphere?
Thermosphere
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What is the percent of oxygen in the atmosphere?
21%
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What is created by the movement of particles?
Heat
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What does this weather map symbol represent?
Stationary Front
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What is the boiling point in celsius?
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500
What is the coldest layer of the atmosphere?
Mesosphere
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What is the percent needed to be considered a trace gas?
Less than 1%
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What is the average amount of motion created by particles?
Temperature
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What are weather map symbols used for?
They are used to determine what the barometric pressure is, temperature, cloud coverage, and more.