gas that forms around a layer around the earth
ozone
cloud formation that happens when wind hits a mountain.
Orographic lifting
wispy and stringy clouds
cirrus
What is the layer closest to earth's surface?
Troposphere
What is the transfer of energy through space by visible light?
Radiation
amount is always changing varies with seasons altitude and type of environments.
water vapor
ability of an air mass to resist rising
stability
puffy and lumpy clouds
cumulus
What layer is above the tropopause?
Stratosphere
What is the transfer of energy by the flow of a heated substance?
Convection
transfer of energy through space as visible light.
radiation
energy that was used to change H2O into vapor is stored in H2O vapor
latent heat
sheets of clouds
stratus
What layer is above the stratopause?
Mesosphere
the process by which heat or electricity is directly transmitted through a substance when there is a difference of temperature
conduction
transfer of energy from one substance to another when they collide because they are in direct contact.
conduction
saturation
gray rain clouds
nimbus
What layer contains only a minute portion of the atmosphere's mass?
Thermosphere
What doesn't heat air directly?
Solar radiation
transfer of energy by the flow of the heated substance
convection
when smaller droplets collide and from lager droplets, as more collision takes place the droplets get to heavy and gravity pulls it to earth.
coalescence
1.high clouds 6000m
2.middle clouds 2000m
3. low clouds below 2000m
1.cirro
2.alto
3.strato
What is the outermost layer of Earth's atmosphere?
Exosphere
What percent of radiation is reflected by the atmosphere?
6%