Atmosphere
The gases surrounding Earth and other planets.
What is Atmosphere?
The recycling of water?
What is the water cycle?
What is the greenhouse effect?
The weather conditions prevailing in an area over a long period.
What is climate?
The leading edge of a cooler mass of air, replacing at ground level a warmer mass of air.
What is a cold front?
Nitrogen, Oxygen, Argon, and Carbon Dioxide.
What are the gases in the atmosphere?
The process of turning from liquid into vapor.
What is Evaporation?
Water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide and ozone
What are greenhouse gases?
The state of the atmosphere at a specific place and time in regards of heat, dryness, sunshine, wind, and rain.
What is weather?
What is a warm front?
The force exerted onto a surface by the weight of the air.
What is air pressure?
Process of turning water vapor into liquid?
What is condensation?
Why do we hear of greenhouse gases causing a problem?
Increase in greenhouse gases/ global warming?
Large volume of air uniform in temperature and moisture.
What is an air mass?
Good weather cloud.
What is a cumulus cloud?
The mass per unit volume of Earth's atmosphere. (Molecules that are tightly compact) Also, decreases as altitude increases.
What is air density?
Rain, sleet, snow, or hail.
What is precipitation?
Burning fossil fuels, deforestation, urban pollution, agriculture.
What are the contributors to greenhouse gases?
A pair of air masses, neither of which is strong enough to replace the other.
What is a stationary front?
Storm clouds. (Two types)
What is a cumulonimbus and stratonimbus cloud?
Layer of the atmosphere we live in?
What is the troposphere?
Evaporation through plants.
What is transpiration?
The absorbed energy warms the atmosphere and the surface of the Earth. This process maintains the Earth’s temperature at around 91 degrees Fahrenheit, warmer than it would otherwise be, allowing life on Earth to exist.
What the greenhouse effect?
When a cold front overtakes a warm front.
What an occluded front?
Refers to the apparent deflection of objects (such as airplanes, wind, missiles, and ocean currents) moving in a straight path relative to the Earth's surface.
What is the coriolis effect?