AIR PRESURE
AIR PRESSURE II
MOVING AIR
MORE ABOUT WIND
100
Used to measure air pressure
What is a barometer?
100
A loop of air or water that carries energy.
What is a convection current?
100
The tendency for the windward side of mountains to get more precipitation.
What is mountain affect?
200
The force given off by air on a place.
What is air pressure?
200
Good weather associated with this kind of pressure
What is high pressure?
200
Cooled air moves down the slopes to the valley.
What is a mountain breeze?
300
Most of earth's ozone is here.
What is the stratosphere?
300
Global pressure belts are caused by this.
What is uneven heating of the earth?
300
Warm air in the mountains rises, cool valley air rushes in to replace it.
What is a valley breeze?
400
This kind of pressure is associated with storms.
What is low pressure?
400
Warm air over land rises, air over the water rushes in to replace.
What is a sea breeze?
500
The four layers of the atmosphere.
What are the troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, and thermosphere?
500
The sun's rays at the equator.
What is are direct rays?
500
Warm air over the water rises, cool air over land rushes in to replace.
What is a land breeze?
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