Energy
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Atmosphere
Masses & Fronts
Human Impact
100
What is the source of energy that powers all of Earth's weather?
What is the Sun?
100
The time it takes for the Sun's energy to reach the Earth.
What is 8 minutes
100
Most abundant (plentiful) gas in Earth's atmosphere.
What is Nitrogen
100
When two air masses meet ___ air moves over ___ air.
What are warm air over cold air.
100
Chemicals introduced into nature that damage the environment (air, land or water).
What is pollution?
200
the sun's energy causes liquid water to turn into water vapor in the atmosphere.
What is evaporation?
200
Our atmosphere is held close to the Earth's surface by this force.
What is gravity?
200
List the two most abundant gases in Earth's Atmosphere
What are nitrogen & oxygen?
200
Two important (defining) characteristics of air masses.
What are temperature and humidity (moisture).
200
The gases in the atmosphere that absorb solar energy and act like a blanket to hold in heat.
What are Greenhouse Gases?
300
Energy transfer through a material when the particles bang into each other.
What is conduction?
300
A high altitude, high speed global wind that effect air masses.
What is the Jet Stream?
300
The coldest layer of the atmosphere.
What is the mesosphere?
300
Where two or more air masses meet
What is a Frontal Boundary or "Front"
300
An increase in this by Europeans over the last couple of centuries has lead to a dramatic reduction in the thickness of topsoil in North America.
What is farming?
400
Energy transfer through Electromagnetic waves.
What is radiation?
400
An ocean current that flows through the Atlantic Ocean and causes the climate of Europe to be warmer than other places at the same latitude.
What is the Gulf Stream or North Atlantic Current?
400
the layer of the atmosphere that contains the ozone layer.
What is the stratosphere?
400
The four types of frontal boundaries.
What are cold, warm, stationary and occluded?
400
When an increase in greenhouse gases causes the climate to change and the Earth's atmosphere to get hotter.
What is Global Warming?
500
The process that occurs in the suns core that is the source of it's great energy.
What is nuclear reactions?
500
When warm air rises and cold air sinks producing wind or warm water rises and cold water sinks creating currents the process is called ___.
What is convection?
500
The layer of the atmosphere closest to the Earth.
What is the troposphere?
500
When two cold air masses collide and squeeze out and up a warm air mass.
What is and occluded front?
500
Three ways that humans impact the natural environment negatively include.
What are surface mining, overpopulation, pollution, deforestation, farming, dams, landfills, and urban development?
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