vocab
The Atmosphere
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instruments
Air movement
100
what is one of the many types of energy that come to earth from the sun.
What is ultraviolet radiation?
100
Troposphere
What is the lowest layer of the atmosphere?
100
what is 79 cm squared
what is the surface area of an average-sized brick.
100
what is an Anemometer
What measures the speed or force of the wind?
100
what is narrow belts of wind
What is jet streams?
200
what is the tranfer of energy that occurs when molecules bump into one and another.
What is Conduction?
200
what is the troposphere
What layer do we live in?
200
What is 16-18
How many hours does a cat sleep per day?
200
Barometer –
What is measures air pressure.
200
what is movement of air towards the water from the land.
What is land breeze?
300
what is convection.
What is the tranfer of heat by the flow of material?
300
what is 19 km to 48 km
How high is the ozone layer?
300
what is $1.3 million.
What is the most money ever paid for a cow in an auction?
300
what is an Hygrometer
What is measures the amount of moisture in the air?
300
what is convection currents over where the land meets the sea can cause wind.
What is sea breeze?
400
What is the rotation of earth causes moving air water appering to turn to the right north of the equator to the left south of the equator.
What is the coriolis effect?
400
What is the electrically charged particles.
What is the ionosphere?
400
what is 1 mile away
A skunk's smell can be detected by a human how many miles away?
400
what is used to tell what time of day it is using the shadows cast by the sun.
What is Sundial?
400
what is dense air sinks and moves away from the poles.
What is polar easterlies?
500
what is created during the day because solar radiation warms the land more than the water.
What is sea breeze?
500
what is 5
How many layers are there in the atmosphere?
500
what is an elephant
What is the only mamal that cant jump?
500
what is shows how much precipitaion falls each day.
What is a rain guage?
500
what is air warmed near the equator travels toward the poles gradually towards the poles.
What is trade winds?
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