Randoms
What are clouds made of?
Condensed water particles
What are the TWO most abundant chemicals in the atmosphere?
Nitrogen and Oxygen
Why do winds not flow in a STRAIGHT line?
The earth rotates on its axis.
Pressure always flows from ____ to _____ pressure.
high to low
Which heats and cools faster: Land or Water?
Land
What are the main Greenhouse gases?
What are carbon dioxide and methane
Which trace gas is the most abundant and can contribute most to global warming?
Carbon Dioxide
Warm air rises at the ______ and sinks at the _______.
equator; poles
Moderate temperatures are characteristics of what climate zone?
temperate
This type of current would cause a costal region to have a higher temperature.
What is warm currents
What is very high
The ___ contains most of the ozone of the atmosphere.
stratosphere
Warm air rises at the ______ and sinks at the _______.
equator; poles
What is the relationship between temperature and latitude?
The lower the latitude, the warmer the region becomes. The higher the latitude, the colder the area becomes. The relationship is inverse (opposite).
What area of Earth experiences the least amount of temperature variation or change during a year?
areas near water
When the southern hemisphere is tilted toward the sun what season is it in Canada?
What is winter
Which layer of the atmosphere does "weather" occur in?
Troposphere
What direction does the Coriolis effect cause wind to bend in the northern hemisphere?
East to West
What are FOUR of the SIX factors of weather?
temperature, humidity, atmospheric pressure, wind, precipitation and cloudiness
Which city, Bismark, North Dakota or Seattle, Washington would have a HIGHER difference between day and night temperatures?
Bismark
This chemical protects us from UV rays in the stratosphere
What is O3 (ozone)
List the layers of the atmosphere from the bottom to the top.
Troposphere, Stratosphere, Mesosphere, Thermosphere
Describe the two reason why wind blows on our Earth. (two reasons for the Coriolis effect)
Unequal heating of the air particles (high pressure vs. low pressure) and the rotation of Earth on its axis.
What type of air mass would be over Miami?
Tropical maratime
The city near land would have a larger temperature difference from day to night and the city near water would have less of a temperature difference from day to night.