Top or Bottom
It's a Gas
Heating Up
Around We Go
Blowin' It
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Layer with 90% of the air and most of the weather
What is the troposhere?
100
Gas making up 21% of the atmosphere
What is oxygen?
100
Heat transfer by currents of a gas or liquid
What is convection?
100
the effect of the earth's rotation on water currents and wind
What is the coriolis effect?
100
Broad belt of wind in the upper troposphere with speeds up to 250mph
What is a jet stream?
200
Layer with strong steady winds and few weather changes DAILY DOUBLE
What is the stratosphere?
200
Gas that is 78% of the atmosphere
What is nitrogen?
200
Heat transfer by direct contact
What is conduction?
200
The point in the earth's rotation when it is furthest from the sun
What is aphelion
200
Wind that reverses direction with the season changes
What is a monsoon?
300
Outer layer with gas molecules orbiting the earth
What is the exosphere?
300
Where all the atmospheric gases are evenly mixed
What is the homosphere?
300
Heat transfer by electromagnetic waves DAILY DOUBLE
What is radiation?
300
the point in the earth's rotation when it is nearest the sun
What is perihelion?
300
A local wind that drops from the high desert to the coast, resulting in high winds and very warm temperatures at the coast
What is a Santa Ana wind?
400
Layer with few molecules but extremely high temperatures
What is the thermosphere?
400
Where the different gases are found in layers according to weight
What is the heterosphere?
400
Incoming solar radiation is known as this
What is insolation?
400
The shape of the earth's orbit around the sun
What is an elipse?
400
Wind belts near the equator that were used by merchant ships in the past DAILY DOUBLE
What are the trade winds?
500
Very cold layer where there is not enough air to support flight
What is the mesosphere?
500
Along with water, this gas helps cause the greenhouse effect
What is carbon dioxide?
500
The process by which the temperature of a gas rises as it is compressed
What is adiabatic heating?
500
The force that keeps our atmosphere in place
What is gravity?
500
Areas of no wind in the middle latitudes that were dangerous for sailing ships
What are the horse latitudes?
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