Chapter 1
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Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Questions
100
What is Electromagnetic waves
What is a form of energy that can travel through space.
100
Cyclone
What is a swirling center of low air pressure
100
Temperate zones
What is between the tropical and polar zones
200
What is ozone
What is a form oxygen which contains three oxygen atoms in each molecule instead of the usual two.
200
Greenhouse effect
What is The process by which gases hold heat in the air
200
Air mass
What is a huge body of air that has similar temperature, humidity, and air pressure throughout it
200
Climate
What is the average, year-after-year conditions of temperature, precipitation, winds, and clouds in an area.
200
Steppes
What is are usually located on the edges of deserts
300
What is temperature
What is the average amount of energy of motion in the molecules of a substance.
300
What is a storm
What is a violent disturbance in the atmosphere.
300
Windward
What is rising warm air cools, and its water vapor condenses and falls as rain or snow
300
Savannas
What is Tropical grasslands found in tropical wet and dry climates
400
Acid Rain is
What is Rain that is naturally slightly acidic, but rain that contains more acid than normal
400
What is Monsoons? Give an example of a country that is effected by them
What is sea and land breezes over a large region that change direction with the seasons . Ex: India
400
Surge
What is a dome of water that sweeps across the coast where the hurricane lands
400
Leeward
What is or downwind side of mountains does not receive as much precipitation.
400
Changes in technology has changed in two areas
What is gathering weather data and using computers to make forecasts
500
what is an aneroid barometer
What is has an airtight metal chamber that sensitive to changes in air pressure
500
Condensation
What is the process by which molecules of water vapor in the air become liquid water
500
Tornado
What is a rapidly whirling, funnel-shaped cloud that reaches down from a storm cloud to touch Earth's surface.
500
Polar zones
What extends from 23 to 66 degrees north and 23 to 66 south latitudes
500
Meteorologists
What scientists who study the causes of weather
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