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An instrument used to measure air pressure
What is a Barometer?
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The amount of water vapor in the air
What is humidity?
100
A large body of air with uniform temperature & moisture
What is an air mass?
100
The warmest region on Earth?
What is the Equator?
100
The atmosphere layer closest to Earth
What is the troposphere?
200
Found in the stratosphere
What is the ozone layer?
200
Most evaporation comes from
What are the oceans?
200
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What is maritime Polar?
200
The average weather conditions for an area over a long period of time
What is Climate?
200
The percentage of solar radiation absorbed by Earth
What is 50%?
300
Narrow bands of high speed winds that blow in the upper troposphere
What are the jet streams?
300
As temperature increases the capacity to hold water vapor
What is increases?
300
Lines that connect point of equal air pressure on a weather map
What are isobars?
300
Weather conditions for a particular place and time
What is weather?
300
The compound/gas most detrimental/dangerous in the greenhouse effect
What is carbon dioxide (CO2)?
400
The deflection of the wind and ocean currents due to the rotation of Earth
What is Coriolis Effect?
400
When a solid changes directly into water vapor
What is sublimation?
400
A boundary between two unlike air masses
What is front?
400
This moderates temperature and increases rain
What is the ocean?
400
As ___________ increases temperature decreases.
What is altitude?
500
The trapping of the heat due to CO2 and methane
What is the greenhouse effect?
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The amount of water vapor compared to the maximum amount of water vapor that the air can hold
What is Relative humidity?
500
This air mass forms over water and it brings warm air
What is maritime Tropical?
500
This factor has the MOST influence on a regions temperature
What is latitude?
500
Two process that removes water vapor from the air
What is condensation and precipitation?
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