Major Components
Height and Structure of the atmosphere
Heat transfers
Temperature control
Earth-Sun relationships
100
Is a mixture of differnt gases and particles.
What is air?
100
Troposhphere
What is the layer in which the ozone layer is located in?
100
Heat
What is usualy tranfered from warmer to cooler objects?
100
Is any factor that causes tempurature to vary from place to place from time to time
What is Tempurature control
100
What causes day and night
What is earth's rotation
200
Water Vapor and Carbon Dioxide
What is the major heat absorbing gases in the atmosphere?
200
Mesosphere
What is the coldest layer of the atmosphere?
200
Molecular activity in heat transfers
What is Conduction?
200
The ______ on a map connect points that have the same tempurature
What is isotherms
200
Earth has 2 principals of motion
What is rotation and revolution
300
Two gases that make up 99% of volume for clean, dry air.
What is nitrogen and oxygen?
300
Temperature
What is the atmospheric layer based on?
300
Mass movement within a substance
What is convection?
300
Many clouds have a high albedo. Therefore they reflect a significant portion of the sunlight to where
What is in to space
300
If the earth axis were not tilted
What is we would not have seasonal changes
400
Is a blanket of air that protects us from UV radiation.
What is ozone?
400
Thermosphere
What is the layer in which the aurora's are located in?
400
About 50%
What percent of solar radiation is absorbed at Earth's surface?
400
5 factors that exert a srtong influence on tempurature
What is heating of land and water ,altitiude, geographic postion, cloud cover, and ocean currents
400
This is the season on the dates of March 21 or 22 and the vertical rays of the sun strike the equator
What is the spring equinox
500
Water vapor
What is the source of percipitation in clouds?
500
Mesosphere
What is the stage that usually you would find meteor's located in?
500
Albedo
What is another word for reflection?
500
In the ________ _________ , 8l % of the surface is water and only 19% is land.This is why it shows smaller annual tempurature variatations
What is the southern hemisphere
500
When you reach the artic circle , at 66.5 degrees north latitiude the length of day is
What is 24 hours
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