Misc.
High pressure systems move in which vertical direction and rotate which way?
What down and clockwise?
Weather and Climate are the same.
What is false.
the slow changing of a liquid into a gas due to the addition of heat
What is evaporation?
the change of a state or material from a liquid to a solid.
What is freezing?
streets, buildings, and parking lots heat the air affecting the local climate
What is the heat island effect?
When air reaches the dew point, this forms.
What are clouds?
when an organism hibernates, this is an example of a behavioral adaptation
What is true
Any form of water that falls to Earth's surfaces from the clouds is called this.
What is Precipitation?
A natural heating process in which certain gases in the atmosphere trap heat.
What is the Greenhouse Effect?
Caused by the tilt of the planet on its axis.
What are the seasons?
the climate zone between 23.5 degrees latitude North and 23.5 degrees latitude south
What is the tropical zone?
Winds are named by the direction from which they come from
True
100 degrees
What is the boiling point of water in celsius?
When a cold air mass encroaches on a warm air mass
What is a cold front?
Any structure or behavior that helps an organism survive in its environment.
What is an adaptation?
A large body of air where temperature and moisture content are similar throughout?
What is Air mass
Temperature is a measure of the humidity in the atmosphere.
False
the layers of gas that surround the Earth
What is the atmosphere?
A gas that traps the heat of the earth from escaping.
What is carbon dioxide?
This is responsible for the unequal heating of the atmosphere.
What is the shape of the earth?
Deforestation increases the amount of carbon dioxide removed from the atmosphere.
False
Ice crystals that form high in the atmosphere are what kind of cloud?
What is a cirrus cloud?
This is determined by averaging 30 or more years of data
What is climate
Tropical, Dry, Polar, Mild, Continental and High Elevation.
What are kinds of climates?
This kind of atmospheric pressure brings fair weather.
What is a high pressure system?
Is 212 degrees Fahrenheit the boiling point of water?
True
condensation
What is when a gas changes to a liquid?
The amount of water vapor in the air compared to the amount of water vapor that the air can hold at that temperature.
What is relative humidity?
The ionosphere is found in which atmospheric layer?
What is the thermosphere?
When two air masses meet, this is formed.
What is a front?
The temperate zone is from 66.5 degrees latitude north to the north Pole and from 66.5 degrees south to the south pole.
False
Causes rain on the leeward side of a mountain to be wet and on the wayward side of the mountain to be dry.
What is the rain shadow effect?
the current atmospheric conditions in a specific location
What is weather
When organisms enter an inactive state to survive periods of intense heat.
What is estivation?
The atmospheric layer do humans live in.
What is the troposphere?
The coriolis effect causes winds and water to appear to move to the right in the northern hemisphere and to the left in the southern hemisphere.
True
Heat transfer that involves waves.
What is radiation?
Energy that flows from a warmer object to a cooler object.
What is heat?
Wind belt that extends between the trade winds and polar easterlies.
What are the westerlies?
A narrow belt of strong wind that blow near the top of the troposphere.
Land breezes blow toward the land.
False
Formed in a cumulonimbus cloud when raindrops are carried high up into the cloud where it freezes, descends and repeats this process until it becomes too heavy to hold.
What is hail?
A violently rotating column of air that touches the ground.
What is a tornado?
Must last for more that 3 hours, have winds over 56km/hr, low temperature and visibility less than 400 feet.
What is a blizzard?