Atmospheric Heating
This type of heating occurs when a warm object touches a cold object, heat moves from the warm object to the cold one.
What is Conduction
This term refers to the layer of gases that surrounds a planet or moon.
What is the atmosphere?
Large volumes of air with specific temperature and moisture characteristics, which cause changes in weather when they move.
What are air masses?
This natural disaster can form when a funnel cloud touches down on the ground, causing destruction in its path.
What is a tornado?
This is the primary factor which determines the climate
What is the latitude?
This type of heating is how energy travels from the Sun to the Earth.
What is Radiation
The two most abundant gases in Earth's atmosphere, making up approximately 99% of its composition.
What are Nitrogen and Oxygen
The type of air mass that brings extremely cold and dry winter weather from northern Canada.
What is a continental polar (cP) air mass?
These powerful storms are large, rotating tropical weather systems with wind speeds of over 120 km/h.
What are hurricanes?
This atmospheric phenomenon results from the Earth's tilt on its axis.
What are seasons?
The transfer of heat through the movement of fluids or gases is known as this
What is Convection
This layer of the atmosphere is where most weather phenomena, such as wind and rain, occur.
What is the Troposphere?
A front formed when a cold air mass moves under a warm air mass, often bringing heavy precipitation.
What is a cold front?
This atmospheric phenomenon results from the rapid expansion of hot air due to lightning.
This moderates temperatures at coastal regions.
What are Ocean currents?
This layer of the atmosphere absorbs much of the Sun's ultraviolet radiation, contributing to atmospheric heating.
What is the ozone layer?
The layer of the atmosphere that contains the ozone layer, which absorbs harmful ultraviolet radiation.
What is the stratosphere?
A front formed when a warm air mass is caught between two cold air masses, resulting in cool temperatures and significant precipitation.
What is an occluded front?
The primary factor powering hurricanes, caused by the sun's energy evaporating ocean water.
What is solar energy
The three major climate zones on Earth.
What are tropical, temperate, and polar?
"This phenomenon occurs when gases in Earth's atmosphere absorb heat energy and radiate it back to the surface, contributing to atmospheric warming.
What is the greenhouse effect?
This colorful phenomenon occurs when charged particles from the sun collide with ions in the ionosphere.
What are the auroras?
Areas of the atmosphere with lower pressure than their surroundings, often leading to stormy weather.
What are cyclones?
These two conditions are necessary for the formation of a thunderstorm.
What are warm, moist air near Earth's surface and an unstable atmosphere?
These are large areas with a certain climate and types of organisms.
What are Biomes?