The Atmosphere
What is the most abundant gas in the atmosphere?
What is Nitrogen?
This is responsible for seasons here on Earth.
What is the tilt of the Earth's axis?
Water covers over this percentage of the Earth's surface.
What is 70%?
Processes like warm moist air traveling across the surface is directed upward by a large geographic structure, such as a mountain will form these.
What are clouds?
Vincent Price provides the spooky monologue at the end of this popular Halloween song.
What is "Thriller".
A characteristic feature of the stratosphere is the presence of this layer.
What is the ozone layer?
Air near the equator averages higher temperatures than air near the poles because sunlight falls in this way.
What is more vertical or more direct?
This measure of humidity is a measure of the amount of water vapor in the air regardless of air temperature.
What is absolute humidity?
These latitudes weather conditions vary more than any other on the planet.
What are middle latitudes?
This English novelist wrote the 1818 classic book "Frankenstein"?
Who is Mary Shelley?
CFC and HCFC gases, which are widely used in refrigeration and in foam plastics, catalyze the breakdown in this molecule in the upper atmosphere.
What is ozone?
A wind in the Northern Hemisphere begins to blow toward the north. Because of the Coriolis effect the wind is deflected in this direction.
What is east?
The Gulf Stream is an ocean current that warms the west coast of this continent.
What is Europe?
Air is spinning away from the high pressure center, creating a downward spinning vortex in this weather system.
What is an anticyclone?
The iconic masked killer Michael Myers wears a mask that is a modified version of this TV character.
Who is Captain Kirk.
This layer of the atmosphere is unique in the fact that temperature increases with altitude.
What is the stratosphere?
If the earth's axis were less tilted than it is today, the difference between the average temperatures of winter and summer would do this.
What is decrease?
Relative to the average depth of the oceans below sea level, the average height of the continents above sea level this.
What is smaller?
When the temperature of a volume of air is equal to its dew point, the relative humidity of the air is at this percentage.
What is 100%?
The sun is directly overhead on at the equator on these special days marking the arrival of summer and winter.
What are solstices?
If the earth had no atmosphere, there would be no greenhouse effect and its surface would be described like this.
Very hot during the day and very cold at night
a line of constant pressure on a weather map is described as this.
What is an isobar?
On a summer night, coastal land cools below the temperature of the nearby sea. The result is a "land breeze" that blows this direction.
What is offshore?
The cloud streaks left by aircraft at high altitudes consist of these.
What is ice crystals?
The quote “Double, double toil and trouble” comes from this literary classic.
What is "Macbeth"