Definitions Part I
Energy Part I
Definitions Part II
Definitions Part III
Definitions Part IV
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The environmental conditions on a day to day basis.
What is the weather?
100
The four methods of energy transfer.
What are radiation, conduction, convection, and advection?
100
Heat capacity.
What is the measure of how much heat a substance takes in or gives off?
100
The hight above sea level, usually measured in meters.
What is altitude?
100
the type of clouds formed when two large air masses meet each other.
What are frontal clouds?
200
Climate.
What is the weather conditions (environmental conditions) averaged over many years?
200
Transfers energy in waves.
What is radiation?
200
Something that absorbs energy and becomes warmer.
What is a heat sink?
200
Prevailing winds.
What are winds that affect large areas.
200
Orographic clouds.
What is the type of cloud formed as air moves up a mountainside?
300
A local convection current during the day.
What is a thermal?
300
Vertical transfer of energy in a fliud.
What is convection?
300
The reflection of the Sun's energy.
What is albedo?
300
The apparent change in direction of a moving object in a rotating system.
What is the Coriolis effect?
300
The study of the atmosphere and weather forecasting.
What is meteorology?
400
The measure of the amount of water vapour in the atmosphere.
What is humidity?
400
The transfer of energy through collision of particles.
What is conduction?
400
The blanket of air and moisture around the planet.
What is the atmoshpere?
400
High-speed winds in the upper troposphere.
What are jet streams?
400
A large body of air with uniform temperature and moisture content at a specific altitude.
What is an air mass?
500
Microclimate.
What is weather in one specific area that is noticeably different from nearby weather?
500
The horizontal transfer of energy in a fluid.
What is advection?
500
The layer of the atmoshpere right above the Earth.
What is the troposhpere?
500
These clouds are produced as a result of convection.
What are convective clouds?
500
Occluded front.
What is what front is created when a cold front cathes up to the warm front?
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