Atmosphere Characteristics
Layers of the Atmosphere
Heating and Temperature of the Atmosphere
Water in the Atmosphere
Cloud Types and Formation
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Ozone
What is a mixture of 3 oxygen atoms that blocks ultraviolent rays?
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Where almost all weather occurs
What is the troposphere?
100
Conduction
What is the transfer of heat from two things that are touching?
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An example of this is going from water vapor to snow
What is deposition?
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Reason tall clouds form
What is unstable air?
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The difference between weather and climate
What is climate is the average weather over a long period of time and weather is the conditions of the atmosphere at a certain time?
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As you go up in the atmosphere pressure ______.
What is decreases?
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The transfer of heat by electromagnetic waves
What is radiation?
200
Saturation
What is how much water the air can hold?
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Air absorbs heat from water vapor which condenses into clouds
What is expansion and cooling?
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Primary pollutant
What is a pollutant released directly in to the atmosphere?
300
Between the tropopause and stratospherere
What is the maximum ozone?
300
A disturbance in the electromagnetic field
What is light waves?
300
Measures relative humidity
What is a hygrometer?
300
Frontal wedging
What is when cold air and warm air collide and the cold air acts as a wedge to push the warm air up?
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Atmosphere composition
What is a 78% nitrogen, 21% oxygen, and 1% everything else?
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Reason temperature increases in the thermosphere
What is radiation not being blocked out?
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Dew Point
What is the temperature at which you get 100% humidity depending on how much water is in the air?
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Relative humidity
What is the ratio of the water the air has to how much water the air can hold?
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The process of hail forming
What is when the wind is pushing the water upward into the cloud and collecting more water and ice until its to havy for the wind to push?
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Amount of atmospheres of pressure at sea level
What is 1 atmosphere.
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How cold it gets in the mesosphere
What is -90 degrees Celsius?
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Land, water, latitude, altitude, and cloud cover
What is ways to determine temperature?
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Humidity, saturation, relative humidity, and dew point have to do with which two major factors.
What is temperature and moisture?
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Reason cumulus clouds are flat on the bottom
What is the bottom of the cloud is where it is cold enough to start condensing?
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