The Atmosphere
The atmosphere in which weather happens.
What is the troposphere?
Heat transferred by direct contact.
What is conduction?
A wind that reverses its direction from season to season.
What is a monsoon?
Atmospheric conditions that limit the height to which rising air can travel.
What are stable atmospheric conditions?
The relative humidity is 100%
What is saturated?
The most abundant gas in the homosphere.
What is nitrogen?
Heat transferred by electromagnetic waves.
What is radiation?
The change in the direction of winds due to the Earth's rotation on its axis.
What is the Coriolis effect?
Water vapor in the air that touches cool ground and turns into a liquid.
What is dew?
Extremely powerful radiation that heats the molecules of the ionosphere.
What are cosmic rays?
The coldest point in the atmosphere.
What is the mesopause?
Heat transferred by circulating air or liquid?
What is convection?
Winds that blow towards the equator in the tropics.
What are trade winds?
A cloud that is almond shaped.
What is a lenticular cloud?
The convection cell that exists between the equator and latitude 300 .
What are Hadley cells?
The point where solar wind pushes on Earth's magnetic field.
What is the magnetopause?
A process that traps heat in Earth's atmosphere.
What is the greenhouse effect?
Colorful displays that occur when solar wind particles react with molecules in the atmosphere.
What are auroras?
The type of cloud which produces heavy rains, strong winds, and sometimes hair or tornadoes.
What are cumulonimbus clouds?
The Southern Hemisphere receives more insolation during the southern summer than the Northern Hemisphere receives durinng the northern summer.
When is the earth closest to the sun?
The outermost temperature layer of the atmosphere.
What is the exosphere?
The process that occurs when air expands with no heat gained or lost?
What is adiabatic cooling?
Warm, dry winds that travel down mountain slopes
What are foehns?
High-level clouds that form wispy streamers that look like feathers or hair.
What are cirrus clouds?
"Lines of equal heat" on a weather map.
What are isotherms?