Vocab
When fluids and objects move in an apparent curved path rather than a straight line.
What is the Coriolis Effect?
Exosphere
What is the outermost layer that extends into space?
Two circulation belts of wind between latitudes 30 degrees north and south
What is trade winds?
What is solar radiation?
Where Auroras occur
Thermosphere layer
A result of weak surface winds
What is Horse Latitudes?
Thermosphere
What has great range in temperature>
Three things wind can move
What is cloud, moisture, and heat?
Emits from the atmosphere into space
What is infrared radiation?
Where noctilucent clouds form
Mesosphere layer
Wind systems on Earth located between latitudes 30°N and 60°N and 30S and 60°S.
What are Prevailing Westerlies?
Stratosphere
What is the layer that contains the ozone?
A cold front is dense air that displaces what?
What is warm air?
The 3 main properties of the atmosphere
What is pressure, temperature, and humidity?
About 99% of the Earth is composed of the two elements…
Nitrogen and oxygen
The amount of water vapor in the atmosphere at a given location on Earth’s surface.
What is Humidity?
Troposphere
What is the layer that is made of oxygen and nitrogen?
Polar Easterlies, Prevailing westerlies, and Trade winds
What are the 3 basic wind systems?
The temperature at which the current amount of water vapor in the air will condense.
What is the dew point?
Main greenhouse gas that is behind the cause of climate change
What is carbon dioxide?
The extra thermal energy contained in water vapor compared to liquid water.
What is latent heat?
Exosphere, Thermosphere, Mesosphere, Stratosphere, and Troposphere.
What is the order of the layers of the atmosphere from highest to lowest?
The directions of Earth’s winds are influenced by…
What is Earth’s rotation?
More collisions in an air space will occur between…
What are particles?
The transfer of thermal energy by the movement of heated material from one place to another.
What is convection?