Atmosphere
Atmospheric Structure
Heating the Atmosphere
Coriolis Effect
100
The process of forming clouds.
What is condensation?
100
The layer of the atmosphere where we live and weather occurs.
What is the troposphere?
100
This is the main factor that determines the temperatures in the atmosphere.
What is solar radiation?
100
Sea and land breezes are both this type of wind.
What are local winds.
200
Describe the difference between climate and weather.
Weather is a state of the atmosphere at a particular space and time. Climate is the average weather over a period of time.
200
Where is the ozone located?
What is the stratosphere?
200
Name the three climate zones based on yearly temperature averages.
What are polar, temperature, and tropical?
200
What are the three global/planetary winds?
What are polar easterlies, westerlies, and trade winds?
300
These two factors decrease as you increase in altitude.
What is temperature and pressure?
300
List the four layers of the atmosphere (starting with the lowest elevation).
What is the troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, and thermosphere.
300
Temperature changes as solar intensity strikes these regions at different angles.
What is latitude?
300
Why are the westerlies known as the horse latitudes?
What is as food and water supplies dwindled, horses on board were either eaten or cast overboard to conserve fresh water?
400
The two most abundant gases in the atmosphere. Daily Double: Name the percentages for both gases.
What is Nitrogen 78% and Oxygen 21%?
400
Why does the temperature decrease the in mesophere?
What is there are less particles to trap in heat/ the air is thin.
400
Describe the greenhouse effect.
What is when energy is trapped in the atmosphere due to gases that cause radiation to be absorbed and re-emitted causing the temperature to increase?
400
Diagram the Earth with the location of the following: Polar easterlies, westerlies, N.E. trade winds, and S.E. trade winds.
See diagram.
500
Earth's atmosphere is a mixture of gases and tiny particles called aerosols. What are three types of aerosols?
What are dust, ash, and pollen? Air pollution also works here.
500
This region of the atmosphere contains ions- gas molecules that have become electrically charged by absorbing solar energy.
What is the ionosphere?
500
What makes up the ozone and what are its two purposes?
What are three molecules of O and to heat the atmosphere and protect us from UV rays?
500
What are the two factors that contribute to the Coriolis Effect?
What is atmospheric pressure moves from high pressure to low pressure creating winds and Earth spinning on its axis.
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