Energy in the Earth's Atmosphere
What are three forms of radiation from the sun that we need on Earth?
Infrared, visible light and ultraviolet
When water goes from liquid state to gas state
What is evaporation
What are the metric units for temperature?
Celcius
The five types of precipitation.
What are rain, snow, sleet, freezing rain, and hail.
Winds that blow over small areas
A measure of how much water vapor is in the air
What is humidity
What is used to measure air temperature?
A thermometer
Used to measure rain fall.
What is a rain gauge
The increased cooling that wind can cause?
What is wind chill factor
Which form of radiation from the sun can cause us to develop sunburns and skin cancer
Ultraviolet
When water vapor turns in to a liquid.
What is condensation?
A long time period with unusually low precipitation.
What is a drought
How is wind speed measured?
with an anemometer
Reflection of light in all directions
What is scattering
A type of cloud that looks puffy and like cotton balls
What is cumulus
The direct transfer of heat from one substance to another substance that it is touching
What is conduction?
a type of precipitation that starts out as rain and freezes after passing through a cold air mass. The ice is smaller than 5 mm.
What is sleet
An area of no/little wind right around the equator caused by rising warm air.
The doldrums
The process by which gases hold heat in the air.
What is the greenhouse effect?
A tool used to figure out the relative humidity of the air.
What is a psychrometer?
What is the major way that heat is transferred in the troposphere?
Convection
A technique used to make it rain by adding dry ice and silver iodide to a cloud.