Air Masses
The abbreviation for Continental Tropical.
What is CT?
A source that lasts a long time and does NOT use fossil fuels (or any other unrenewable source) to generate energy for us to use.
What is Renewable Energy?
The first layer of the Atmosphere.
What is the Troposphere?
Out of either Hot or Cold, this gives off energy.
What is Hot / Heat?
The percentage of Nitrogen (N2) in Earth's Atmosphere.
What is 78%?
MP is the abbreviation for...
What is Maritime Polar
Carbon Dioxide (CO2), Methane (CH4), and Nitrous Oxide (N2O).
What are some examples of Greenhouse gases?
The last / FARTHEST layer of the Atmosphere.
What is the Exosphere?
This is the Direction of Heat Flow.
What is from Hot to Cold?
This gas makes up 21% of Earth's Atmosphere.
What is Oxygen (O2)?
This term is used to describe cool surface temps, but not quite as cold as Arctic. Forms at a high Latitude. Usually pretty Stable. Can have Continental and Maritime versions.
What is Polar
Gases in the Earth's atmosphere that trap some of the heat from the Sun to keep the Earth warm.
What is the Greenhouse Effect?
The Layer of the Atmosphere that the International Space Station orbits in.
What is the Thermosphere?
The 3 ways to transfer heat/energy.
What are Conduction, Convection, and Radiation?
This pressure system is associated with Stormy and Unstable weather.
What is Low pressure?
This term is used to describe an air mass that forms over large bodies of water, such as the Gulf of Mexico.
What is Maritime
The reflectivity of something. High means more reflective, Low means more absorptive.
What is Albedo?
All 5 layers of the Atmosphere in order from CLOSEST to the Earth to FARTHEST.
What are the Troposphere, Stratosphere, Mesosphere, Thermosphere, and Exosphere?
Out of the 3 ways to transfer heat, this way happens through touch.
What is Conduction?
The 3 properties that Air has.
What are Volume, Density, and Mass?
Describe a Maritime Polar air mass.
Cool, Moist, and Unstable, but not as cold as CP.
How Climate Change and Greenhouse Gases are related.
Humans are creating lots of Greenhouse gases, which traps more heat in than it otherwise would have, which leads to the increasing temperature of the Earth and melting of ice, further causing Climate Change. (answer can be a variant of this)
These are how the Layers of the Atmosphere are divided.
Divided into Layers based on chemical composition, temperatures, movement, and density.
Something that Convection happens through. Includes air and water.
What is a Fluid?
The definition of Air Pressure and what it is determined by.
The weight of air. Determined by density.