air pressure
Layers of the atmosphere
Heat Transfer
Winds
Misc.
100
The force pushing on an area or surface.
What is pressure?
100
The troposphere
What is the thinnest layer of the atmosphere
100
Conduction
What is it called when heat transfers through touching?
100
The unequal heating of the earth's surface within a small area.
What is the cause of local winds?
100
An envelope of gases that surround the planet.
What is the atmosphere?
200
This type of a barometer has no liquid and an airtight metal chamber.
What is an aneroid baramoter?
200
the troposphere
Where does most weather occur
200
Convection
What is most heat in the troposphere transferred by?
200
Global winds.
What wind is blown steadily specific spot over a long distance?
200
The burning of fossil fuel.
What is the main cause of Acid Rain?
300
Air pressure
_____ is the result of the weight of s column f air pushing down on a area
300
The thickest layer is the exosphere
What is the thickest layer in the atmosphere
300
Radiation?
What is the name of the heat that the sun gives off?
300
When cool air blows inland from over the water and moves underneath warm air causes a sea breeze.
What is a Sea Breeze?
300
It is one form of electromagnetic energy.
What is non visible radiation?
400
altitude
____ is the distance above sea level
400
It means the middle.
What does meso mean in mesosphere?
400
Thermal Energy
What is the name of the total energy of motion in the particles of the substance?
400
Latitude is the distance from the equator measured in degrees.
What is Latitude?
400
When earth's surface it radiates of that energy back into the atmosphere as infrared radiation.
What is the greenhouse effect?
500
the ozone layer in the stratosphere absorbs ultraviolet light
What is the ozone layer
500
Radiation Conduction Convection
What are the three main types of heat transfer?
500
Sea Breeze Land Breeze
What are the two types of local winds?
500
Electromagnetic
Energy from the sun travels to Earth as ________ waves.
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