The average amount of energy of motion of particles.
What is Temperature?
100
This causes wind.
What are differences in air pressure?
100
Tall clouds that produce thunderstorms.
What are cumulonimbus clouds?
100
Any form of water that falls from the sky.
What is precipitation?
200
How electromagnetic waves are classified.
What is wavelength?
200
The total energy of motion of particles.
What is thermal energy?
200
This causes winds to apparently curve due to the turning of the earth.
What is the coriolis effect?
200
Feathery, wispy clouds found in the upper layer.
What are cirrus clouds?
200
The type of precipitation that starts as ice, melts to a liquid and refreezes before it falls to the ground.
What is sleet?
300
EM waves with wavelength slightly longer than red light.
What is infrared radiation?
300
The freezing point and boiling point in the celsius scale.
What is 0 and 100?
300
The two global regions characterized by little to no wind movement.
What are the horse latitudes and the doldrums?
300
Fluffy cotton type clouds.
What are cumulus clouds?
300
The instrument that uses a dry bulb and a wet bulb. The difference between the two to determines the reading.
What is a pshychrometer?
400
EM waves with wavelengths slightly shorter than violet light.
What is ultraviolet light?
400
The type of heat transfer that results from particles touching?
What is conduction?
400
The increase in cooling caused by the wind.
What is wind chill factor?
400
The temperature water condenses from a gas to a liquid.
What is dew point?
400
What a psychrometer measures.
What is relative humidity?
500
In the EM Spectrum, waves with the shortest wavelength have the highest this.
What is frequency? (not a test question)
500
The main way heat is transferred throughout the atmosphere.
What is convection?
500
The reason for sea breezes.
What is the land heats up before the water so the air above the land is less dense and rises and the cooler air from over the water rushes in to replace the rising air?
500
How clouds form.
What is water vapor cools and condenses around dust particles in the air.
500
The unreliable process of adding ice and chemicals to encourage cloud formation in a drought.