Definitions
state of the atmosphere at a specific 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 is where weather occurs
What is the Troposphere?
This layer has the lowest air pressure
What is the Thermosphere?
Do cold air masses or warm air masses create high pressure?
cold air masses
It is air moving from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure.
What is wind?
This is the amount of water vapor in the air
What is humidity?
These are the layers of the Atmosphere
What are Stratosphere, Mesosphere, Thermosphere, and Troposphere?
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 type of air mass forms over an ocean
maritime air mass
This is what the weather is like in a particular region or area over a long period of time.
What is climate?
This protects us from harmful Ultraviolet radiation.
What is the Ozone Layer?
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 droplets
Clouds
Warm air rises. As it rises high into the atmosphere, it begins to cool, which therefore causes it to sink.
What are Convection Currents?
Increasing Altitude and/or Latitude cause this.
Decreasing Temperature
This layer of the atmosphere protects us from meteors
What is the Mesosphere?
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?
This type of front can create severe thunderstorms.
What is a cold front
What will decrease air pressure?
Warm air rising AND/OR a weather front
This occurs as the angle of the sun striking the ground decreases.
Increasing temperature
How do we determine where the boundaries are for the layers of the atmosphere?
Based on where temperature is increasing or decresing
Which convections cell do we live in?
Ferrel Cell
The type of front is represented in purple on a weather map
occluded front
Which convection cell rises to the highest altitude?
Hadley Cell