Atmosphere
What is the troposphere?
The lowest layer in the atmosphere. It contains almost 90% of the atmosphere mass.
What are the 4 air masses?
Arctic, tropical, polar and equatorial.
What are the three forms of heat transfer?
Radiation, Conduction, and Convection
What are the hurricane categories?
1 2 3 4
What are global winds?
Winds that are global...
Duh.
What is the stratosphere
It is the second layer in the atmosphere. It holds the ozone layer, which absorbs harmful radiation.
What are arctic winds?
A circulating pattern of strong winds flowing around the Arctic during winter.
What is radiation?
Energy made by electromagnetic waves.
Where do tornadoes usually form?
Tornado alley.
What are pressure belts?
A region on the earth that has high pressure winds, or low pressure winds.
What is the mesosphere?
It is the third layer of the atmosphere. In this layer, temperature decreases, and altitude increases.
What are tropical winds?
When the maximum wind speed is more than 63 km/h
What is convection?
Convection is heat transferred by movement of a heated fluid such as air or water.
What is the difference between a tropical storm and a hurricane?
Tropical Storms have winds of 39-73 mph, while A Hurricane is when sustained winds of 74 mph or higher are POSSIBLE.
What is the Coriolis affect?
Because of earth's supposed curving, the winds and oceans respond in a certain way.
What is the thermosphere?
The fourth layer of the atmosphere. It absorbs the sun's radiation.
What are polar winds?
Frigid air in the winter sinks toward the ground creating a high pressure area at the poles.
What is conduction?
Conduction is when heat energy is transmitted through collisions between neighboring atoms or molecules.
What are two storms that hit Louisiana?
Andrew and Katrina.
Is the wind windy?
...
What is the atmosphere made of?
78% Nitrogen
21% Oxygen
1% Other stuff IDK
What are equilateral winds?
Winds that develop at latitudes from 25 degrees north to ten degrees south.
What does a radiator use?
It's not radiation, it's actually convection.
What's the difference between weather and climate?
You can weather a tree, but you can't climate.
NAME EVERY SINGE TYPE OF GLOBAL WIND!
Polar easterlies, westerlies, horse latitudes, trade winds, and the doldrums.