Atm. Characteristics
Layers of the Atm.
EarthSun Relationships
Heat Transfer
Random
100
Is constantly changing, and it refers to the state of the atmosphere at any given time and place.
What is weather?
100
The temperature remains constant to a height of about 20 kilometers.
What is stratosphere?
100
Sun's vertical rays are located 23 1/2 degrees North.
What is Tropic of Cancer?
100
Mass movement within a substance.
What is Convection?
100
Travels out in all directions from its source.
What is radiation?
200
Is the source of all clouds and percipitation.
What is water vapor?
200
The lowest part of the atmosphere.
What is troposphere?
200
Sun's vertical rays are located 23 1/2 degrees South.
What is the Tropic of Capricorn?
200
Transfer of heat through matter by molecular activity.
What is Conduction?
200
the fraction of total radiation that is reflected by any surface.
What is albedo?
300
Is a form of oxygen that combines three oxygen atoms into each molecule
What is ozone?
300
Layer of the atmosphere that is about 50km to 80km and the outer boundary is the mesopause.
What is stratosphere?
300
September 22-23.
What is the Autumnal equinox?
300
Conduction, Convection, and Radiation.
What are the three mechanisms of energy transfer?
300
Lines that connect points that have the same temperature.
What is isotherms?
400
Airborne particles and gases that occur in concentrations large enough to endager the health of organisms.
What are air pollutants?
400
No well-defined upper limit.
What is thermosphere?
400
March 21-22.
What is Spring (vernal) equinox?
400
The energy transfered from one object to another because of a difference in temperatures.
What is heat?
400
Rotation and Revolution.
What is Earth's two principal motions?
500
Is a mixture of different gases and particles, each with its own physical properties.
What is air?
500
The pause between the mesosphere and the thermosphere.
What is the mesopause?
500
Changing of sun agle and changing length of day.
What are the redults of changing of seasons?
500
Occurs when an electromagnetic wave bounces off an object.
What is reflection?
500
Thins as you travel away from Earth until there are too few gas molecules to detect.
What is the atmosphere?
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