What is the source of all clouds and precipitation?
100
An albedo is the fraction of total radiation that's reflected by any surface.
What is an albedo?
100
Temperature decreases with altitude.
In the Troposphere, what does temperature decrease with?
100
Heat is the energy tranferred from one object to another because of difference in their temperatures.
What is heat?
200
The atmosphere can be divided vertically into four layers
How many layers can the atmosphere be divided into?
200
Isotherms are lines that connect points that have the same temperatures.
What is an Isotherm?
200
Temperature increases at top.
In the stratosphere where does temperature increase?
200
conduction, convection, and radiation.
What is the three mechanisms of energy transfer as heat?
300
Nitrogen and oxygen
What two gases make up 99 percent of the volume of clean,dry air?
300
Land heats more rapidly and to higher temperatures than water.
Does land heat more rapidly and at higher temperatures or slower and at cooler temperatures than water?
300
Between the Thermosphere and Stratosphere.
Where is the mesophere located?
300
Transfer of heat through matter by molecular activity.
What is conduction
400
Weather's constantly changing and it refers to the state of the atmosphere at any given time or place. Climate's the sum of all weather information that helps discribe a place or region?
What is the difference between weather and climate?
400
Heating of land and water, altitude, geographic poistion, cloud cover, and ocean currents.
What are factors other than latitude that exert a strong influence of temperature?
400
Fraction of atosphere's mass.
What is the Thermosphere a fraction of ?
400
Transfer of heat by mass movement or circulation within a substance.
What is convection?
500
Seasonal changes occur because Earth's position relative to the sun continually changes as it travels along its orbit.
Why do seasonal changes occur?
500
Clouds absorb outgoing radiation emitted by earth and reradiating a portion of it back to the surface.
At night, what do clouds absorb?
500
12 km
What is the average height of thickness in the Troposphere?