Air Pressure
The Air Around You
Layers of the Atmosphere
Heat/Energy in the Atmosphere
Wind
100
What is air pressure
What is the result of the weight of a column of air pushing down on you
100
What are pollutants
What is harmful substances in the air, water, or soil?
100
What are the layers of the atmosphere (bottom to top)
What is the troposphere, the stratosphere, the mesosphere, and the thermosphere?
100
The transfer of heat by the movement of a fluid
What is convection
100
What is wind
What is the horizontal movement of air from high pressure to low pressure
200
What is used to measure air pressure
What is a barometer
200
What is acid rain
What is rain with a high acid content
200
In what layer does weather occur
What is the troposphere
200
What is the greenhouse effect
What is the process that holds gasses in the atmosphere
200
What is used to measure wind speed and direction
What is a wind vane and an anemometer
300
A ______ barometer is a tube with a opened and facing a dish filled with _______.
What is mercury and mercury (mercury barometer acceptable)
300
The main cause of acid rain
What is the burning of fossil fuels
300
What layer protects Earth from most meteoroids
What is the mesosphere
300
The total energy of motion in the particles of a substance
What is thermal energy
300
What is the wind-chill factor
What is what causes the increased cooling of wind?
400
What is altitude and what happens to air pressure and density as you go to a higher altitude
What is elevation and the higher altitude you go the less air pressure and density there is
400
The importance of the atmosphere
What is; the atmosphere makes conditions on Earth suitable for living things
400
What layer of the atmosphere contains the ozone layer
What is the stratosphere
400
The three ways heat is transferred in the atmosphere
What is radiation, convection, and conduction
400
What is the Coriolis effect
What is the way Earth's rotation makes winds curve
500
What does the elevation effect the air (pressure) pushing down on you? EXAMPLE: the beach and the top of Mt. Everest
At the tip of Mt. Everest, you are at a higher altitude then at the beach (sea-level) and there is less atmosphere (air) pushing down on you. So, there is less air pressure.
500
How do clouds form
What is water vapor condescending out of the air to form tiny droplets of droplets or crystals forming clouds
500
The layers (parts) of the thermosphere
What is the ionosphere and the exosphere
500
What happens to the sun's energy when it reaches Earth
What is the sun radiates most of the energy back into the atmosphere as infrared light
500
What are the polar easterlies, trade winds, and the prevailing westerlies
What are the major global wind belts
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