The Atmosphere
Weather Factors
Weather Patterns
Precipitation
Predicting the Weather
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When fuels are burned what do they release?
Carbon Dioxide
100
What is scattering?
The reflection of light in all directions.
100
Where does a maritime tropical air mass form?
Over the ocean.
100
How is rainfall measured?
Rain guage
100
What are scientists who study the causes of weather and try to predict it?
Meteorologists
200
How much Helium is in the air?
0.00052
200
What are electromagnetic waves?
A form of energy that can travel through space.
200
What is El Nino?
When winds push warm surface water to the west coast of South America.
200
What are four of the five types of common precipitation?
Sleet, Hail, Snow, Rain, or Freezing Rain
200
What is it called when a small event causes a larger disturbance that could eventually turn into a hurricane?
Butterfly Effect
300
What are pollutants?
Harmful substances in the air, water, or soil.
300
What is the lowest cloud in the atmosphere?
Fog
300
What is an isobar?
Lines joining places on a map that have the same air pressure.
300
What do scientists use to produce rain during droughts?
Cloud Seeding.
300
What are lines on a map that show the same temperature?
Isotherms
400
What are the two different types of barometers used?
Mercury, Aneroid Barometers.
400
What is the increased cooling that a wind can cause?
Wind Chill Factor
400
How does an air mass move?
By the Prevailing Westerlies.
400
What clouds do hail form in?
Cumulonimbus cloud
400
What happens when a cumulus cloud grows taller into a cumulonimbus cloud?
A thunderstorm may occur
500
What are the two layers in the thermosphere?
Exosphere, Ionosphere
500
What is an instrument with two thermometers, a wet bulb and a dry bulb thermometer.
Psychrometer
500
What is an occluded front?
When a cold air mass meets a cool air mass then the warm air mass is forced upward.
500
Sleet is smaller than how many millimeters?
5 Millimeters
500
What are the three main bits of data that computers take to predict the weather?
Temperature, air pressure, and wind speed
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