Seasons
Distinguished by their annual weather patterns.
What is Season?
The layer of the atmosphere where all weather occurs.
What is the Troposphere?
Movement of wind over a short distance caused by pressure differences
What are Local Winds?
Sunlight that is converted into usable energy.
What is Solar Energy?
The earth's complete movement around the sun in 365 1/4 days.
What is a revolution?
The layer of the atmosphere that contains the Ozone Layer.
What is the Stratosphere?
The movement of cooler, high pressure, air over the water towards warm land.
What is a Sea Breeze?
List three things that happen to solar energy in the earth's atmosphere.
What is reflected, absorbed by the atmosphere or absorbed by the earth’s surface?
Mark the beginning of spring and autumn.
What is an equinox?
The layer of the atmosphere where temperature increases with altitude.
What is the Thermosphere?
Winds that blow over long distances from a specific direction.
What are Global Winds?
The amount of solar energy absorbed by Earth's surface.
What is 50%?
If the Northern Hemisphere is experiencing summer, what season is the Southern Hemisphere experiencing?
What is Winter?
The gas that absorbs UV radiation and converts it into heat energy.
What is Ozone?
A belt of high-speed wind in the upper troposphere is called..
What is a Jet Stream?
The three components in Earth's atmosphere that reflect 25% of solar energy.
What is clouds, dusts, and gases?
Occurs on the two days each year when the sun is directly overhead at latitude 25.5 north or 23.5 south.
What is a solstice?
The three most common components of Earth's Atmosphere.
What is Oxygen, Nitrogen, Water Vapor?
The curving effect that Earth's rotation has on all free-moving objects, including winds.
What is the Coriolis effect?
The process of warming the earth's surface from radiation in the atmosphere.
What is The Greenhouse Effect?
List the layers of the atmosphere from lowest to highest in altitude.
What is the Troposphere, Stratosphere, Mesosphere, Thermosphere, and Exosphere?