The Atmosphere
Heat Transfer
Wild over Winds
Fronts & Storms
Climates
100
When the atmosphere traps heat near the earth's surface.
What is the greenhouse effect?
100
This is the kind of energy from the sun that heats earth's atmosphere
What is electromagnetic energy?
100
Measures wind speed.
What is an anemometer?
100
High feathery cirrus clouds are made of this.
What is ice crystals?
100
How warm or wet a place is overall is its _______________.
What is climate?
200
All of earth's _________ occurs in this lowest layer of the atmosphere, the troposphere.
What is weather?
200
Your feet touching hot sand is an example of this.
What is conduction?
200
Winds curve because the earth does this (Coriolis Effect)
What is rotate?
200
This makes steady rain when warm air slides up over cold air.
What is a warm front?
200
This is the main greenhouse gas, released from the burning of fossil fuels.
What is carbon dioxide?
300
The instrument that measures air pressure.
What is a barometer?
300
Examples of these kinds of winds are trades, polar easterlies and prevailing westerlies
What is global?
300
When the air over the land is cooler than the air over the water, you get this (at night)
What is a land breeze?
300
This is a funnel shaped, rapidly spinning cloud that touches earth's surface.
What is a tornado?
300
The warming climate could change the levels of the_____.
What is ocean or sea?
400
This decreases when you go up a mountain.
What is air pressure?
400
Heat transfer by moving air.
What is convection?
400
Winds are the result of differneces in this.
What is air pressure?
400
Most hurricanes form over this ocean.
What is the Atlantic?
400
The warmest climates on earth are found closest to this line.
What is the equator?
500
This is where the ozone layer is located.
What is the stratosphere?
500
Most of the heating of the troposphere is done this way
What is convection?
500
This is the global wind belt that we live in.
What are the Prevailing Westerlies?
500
cloud where thunderstorms start
What is cumulonimbus?
500
Cold climates in low latitudes can be found here.
What is high altitudes or mountain tops?
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