Meteor Logia
This is the combination of the Greek words with the meanings of "High in the sky" and "the study of".
What is Meteorology?
Pg. 187, 2nd paragraph.
There are this many names layers for Earth's atmosphere, all ending with 'sphere'.
What is 5 layers?
Pg. 190, figure 7.6
While many factors affect weather like water, air and air pressure, all weather can ultimately be blamed on this.
What is the sun?
Pg. 193, second paragraph
This is an area where different masses of air, usually warm and cold, meet.
What is a front?
Pg. 198, 'Fronts' section top page
The effect of the atmosphere retaining heat from the sun due to the atmosphere acting like a blanket.
What is the greenhouse effect?
Pg. 206, 'Global Warming' section
This gas makes up the second highest by volume and percentage in the air.
What is Oxygen?
Pg. 189, figure 7.4
This layer extends to 7-8 miles from Earth's surface, contains all weather and dust and water particles.
What is the troposphere?
Pg. 191, first paragraph.
This is the force exerted onto a surface by the weight of air molecules.
What is air pressure?
Pg. 193, BLD middle of the page
This is what occurs when (it is thought) snow particle bounce into each other and build up static electricity until there is a great difference between clouds and the ground.
What is lightening?
Pg. 199, 'Lightening' section.
These contain trace amounts of all elements found in the Earth's crust along with dissolved oxygen, carbon dioxide and nitrogen gas critical for sea life.
What are oceans?
Pg. 207, 'What is Ocean Water' section.
Weather is what is happening in the atmosphere on a daily basis and this is what the conditions or an area are like over a long period of time.
What is climate?
Pg. 188, 1st paragraph
Besides having the best sounding name, this is the break between atmospheric regions where turbulent mixing occurs.
What is the Turbopause?
Pg 190, figure 7.5 & second paragraph.
The accumulation of water vapor in the atmosphere when into liquid drops floating in the air.
What are clouds?
Pg. 196, first paragraph
Known as cyclones or typhoons in other parts of the world, these are large weather patterns that form over the ocean when certain conditions occur and then move North due to the rotation of the Earth.
What are Hurricanes?
Pg. 200, 'Hurricanes' section.
This is the cause for 'Ocean bulges', or tides due to gravitational effect.
What is the moon?
Pg. 209, 'Waves and Tides' section.
While the Earth's atmosphere goes out 300 miles from the surface, the majority of the material found in the atmosphere is within this many miles of the surface.
What are 10 miles?
Pg. 188, section "Earth's Atmosphere"
This layer of the atmosphere is the least understood (being o high for planes and too low for satellites), the coldest and is where meteors generally burn up.
What is the mesosphere?
Pg. 191, third paragraph
This is the cycle of how water moves through the different parts of the Earth's geography and atmosphere to flow from ocean, clouds, land and back again.
What is the Hydrological cycle?
Pg. 195, first paragraph / figure 7.11
If you see lightening and then hear the thunder 10 seconds later, the lightning strike was this fat away.
What is 2 miles? (SoS = 1 mile per 5 seconds)
Pg. 200, Explore More
Called ENSO for short, this is a major influence on weather patterns forms in the surface waters of the tropical East Pacific Ocean.
What is the El Nino Southern Oscillation?
Pg. 205, 'ENSO' section.
An upper layer of the atmosphere containing 3 oxygen atoms per molecule instead of the 2 oxygen atoms in the air we breath, it is an important barrier for Earth protecting it from solar radiation.
What is the ozone layer?
Pg. 189, last paragraph.
In this sublayer of the thermosphere, charged particles form space bump into molecules and add their energy to this layer leading to the colorful auroras seen in Earth's poles.
What is the ionosphere?
Pg. 191, last paragraph
These are massive air currents in the troposphere that circle Earth around the northern and southern hemispheres caused by masses of rising warm and falling cold air.
What are jet streams?
Pg. 193, last paragraph
The name of the phenomena when tornadoes and hurricanes spin counterclockwise in the Norther hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern hemisphere.
What is the Coriolis effect?
Pg. 200, 'Tornadoes' section, second paragraph
This is the deepest place on Earth with a depth of 36,037 ft / 10,984 meters (Not in the module!)
What is the Mariana Trench?
Not in book, just for fun!