Meteorology
The field of study regarding the earth's atmosphere
What is meteorology?
The conditions in the atmosphere at a given moment in time are called this.
What is weather?
Oceans cover this percentage of the earth's surface.
What is 71%?
The common term for a tropical cyclone
What is a hurricane?
Masses of water droplets or ice crystals suspended in the air
What are clouds?
The air pressure on earth at sea level
What is 14.7 lbs. per square inch?
The overall pattern of weather conditions in a particular area are called this.
What is climate?
The deepest place on earth
What is the Mariana Trench?
The calm part of a hurricane is called this
What is the "Eye of the Storm?"
Cloud condensation nuclei are necessary to form clouds and are often made of these 2 things
What are pollen and dust?
Air pressure changes with these 2 things
What are temperature and altitude?
The largest and driest desert on earth.
What is the Antarctic?
Desalination occurs mainly through these 2 methods
What are distillation and reverse osmosis?
A sudden rise in sea level near shore during a hurricane due to water piling up in front of the storm is called this
What is storm surge?
A vortex or whirlpool caused by changing tides in the narrow straits is called this.
What is a maelstrom?
Changes in air pressure over the surface of the earth creates this
What is wind?
Adam and Eve wearing no clothes and being perfectly comfy show us that this phenomenon was trapping the heat of the sun inside the moist atmosphere.
What is the greenhouse effect?
The largest of earth's oceans
What is the Pacific Ocean?
Temperature extremes
Vacuum of space
UV radiation
meteoroid impacts
What are dangers our atmosphere protects us from?
Stars with a positive degree of declination are ______ the celestial equator and those with a negative degree of declination are _______ thee celestial equator.
What are above and below?
Nitrogen 78%
Oxygen 21%
1% other gasses such as argon, helium and carbon dioxide
What are the gases that make up the earth's atmosphere?
Polar
Desert
Tropical
Subtropical
Temperate
What are the 5 major climate types on earth?
Name the 5 oceans
What are the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Arctic and Southern.
Troposphere
Stratosphere
Mesosphere
Thermosphere
Exosphere
What are the layers of the atmopsphere from earth outward?
The order of star colors from hottest to coolest
What are blue, white, yellow and orange?