Definitions
This is the amount of water vapor in the air in a particular parcel of air.
What is relative humidity?
Differences in temperature
What separates layers of the atmosphere?
This is found in the Stratosphere
What is the Ozone?
This is the reflectivity of the Earth's surface
What is the albedo effect?
This is the point is the temperature at which condensation begins?
What is dew point?
This is defined as the state of the atmosphere at some place and time, usually expressed in terms of temperature, air pressure, humidity, wind speed and direction, precipitation, and cloudiness.
What is weather?
This layer of the atmosphere protects us from meteors
What is the Mesosphere?
This layer has the lowest air pressure
What is the Thermosphere?
Cold air
Which air is most dense Cold air/ Warm air?
It is air moving from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure.
What is wind?
This is what the weather is like in a particular region or area over a long period of time. For example, Iceland has a cold, windy and cloudy climate. This doesn’t mean that they don’t have occasional warm sunny days. But those days are outnumbered by the cold, cloudy ones.
What is climate?
This layer of the Atmosphere is where weather occurs
What is the Troposphere?
These are the two most common gases found throughout all the layers
What are Nitrogen & Oxygen?
When the invisible water vapor in the air condenses into visible water dropletsWhat causes clouds to form?
What causes clouds to form?
Warm air rises. As it rises high into the atmosphere, it begins to cool, which therefore causes it to sink. What are Convection Currents?
What are Convection Currents?
Altitude, Latitude, Marine or Coastal Influences, Cloud Cover
What factors affect temperature?
These are the layers of the Atmosphere
What are Stratosphere, Mesosphere, Thermosphere, Troposphere, and Exosphere?
This layer of the atmosphere contains most of the gases on earth and is important because this is where we live and the only layer that has enough gases for us to breathe.
What is the Troposphere?
These are the different types of precipitation
What are convectional rain, orographic or relief rain and frontal rain?
Temperature, density and altitude
What factors affect air pressure?
This refers to the angle of solar radiation strikes the surface of the earth.
What is Solar Indidence
It contains oxygen, traps heat, protects us from the suns UV rays
Why is the atmosphere important?
From areas of high pressure to area of low pressureHow do air masses flow?
How do air masses flow?
This occurs due to the ascent of air forced by the mountain barrier
What is orographic/relief rain?
This is warm air from the land moving towards the ocean in the day time.
What is sea breeze?