Vocabulary
Energy Transfer
Layers of the Atmosphere
Global and Local Winds
Super Hero Alter Egos
100
A narrow belt of strong winds that blow in the upper troposphere.
What is jet stream?
100
This is the form of energy transfer that moves energy from the Sun to the surface of the Earth and the ozone layer.
What is radiation?
100
This is the percentage of the atmosphere that is nitrogen and oxygen.
What is 78% and 21%
100
This is the wind belt between the equator and 30 degrees.
What is the trade winds?
100
Tony Stark
Who is Iron Man?
200
The movement of air caused by differences in air pressure.
What is wind?
200
This is the form of energy transfer that moves thermal energy from the Earth's crust to the atmosphere.
What is thermal conduction?
200
This is the layer of the atmosphere with the greatest concentration of ozone.
What is the stratosphere?
200
This is the pressure belt between 60 degrees latitude and the north or south pole.
What is the polar easterlies?
200
Peter Parker
Who is Spiderman?
300
A mixture of gases that surrounds a planet or moon.
What is atmosphere?
300
This form of energy transfer is what creates winds that blow from the poles to the equator.
What is convection?
300
This is the middle layer of the atmosphere.
What is the mesosphere?
300
This is the pressure belt that exists over most of the continental United States.
What is the westerlies?
300
Clark Kent
Who is Superman?
400
A gradual increase in average global temperature.
What is global warming?
400
Life would not be possible without this additional form of atmospheric heating that is caused by gases like water vapor and carbon dioxide.
What is the greenhouse effect?
400
This is the layer of the atmosphere that contains 90% of the atmosphere's total mass.
What is the troposphere?
400
This is the reason why the winds between 30 degrees and 60 degrees are called the Westerlies.
What is because the wind blows from the west?
400
Bruce Banner
Who is the Hulk?
500
The apparent curving of the path of a moving object from an otherwise straight path due to the Earth's rotation.
What is Coriolis Effect?
500
This is what the balance between energy coming in and out of the Earth's atmosphere is known as.
What is the radiator balance.
500
This is the name of the natural phenomenon that is created as high energy particles enter the ionosphere to create dazzling light shows.
What is an aurora?
500
The area of constant air pressure at 30 degrees north and south latitude have this name.
What is the Horse Latitudes?
500
Barry Allen
Who is the Flash?
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