Definition
What is weather?
What is the Stratosphere?
Second major layer of the Earth's atmosphere, above the troposphere and below the mesosphere.
What is electromagnetic radiation with longer wavelength than those of visible light?
Infrared Radiation
What is fast flowing, narrow, meandering air currents in the atmospheres of some planets?
Jet stream
What is Atmosphere?
The envelope of gases surrounding the Earth or another planet
What is radiation?
The emission of energy as electromagnetic waves or as moving subatomic particles.
What radiation has a wavelength shorter than visible light but longer than X-rays?
Ultraviolet Radiation
What is the amount of water vapor present in air expressed as a percentage of the amount needed for saturation at the same temperature?
Relative Humidity
What is Ozone?
A colorless unstable toxic gas with a pungent odor and powerful oxidizing properties.
Convection
The movement caused within a fluid by the tendency of hotter and therefore less dense material to rise and colder material to sink under the influence of gravity.
Sea breeze
What is a body of air with horizontally uniform temperature, humidity, and pressure?
What is air pressure?
Weight of the atmosphere
The trapping of the sun's warmth in a planet's lower atmosphere due to the greater transparency of the atmosphere to visible radiation from the sun than to infrared radiation emitted from the planet's surface.
what is a breeze blowing toward the sea from land?
What is the boundary between two air masses that have different temperatures or humidity?
A front
What is the troposphere?
The lowest region of the atmosphere.
What is Latent Heat?
The heat required to convert a solid into a liquid of vapor, or a liquid into a vapor, without the change of temperature.
What tends to deflect moving objects to the right in the northern hemisphere and to the left in the southern and is important in the formation of cyclonic water systems?
The Coriolis Effect
what is a system of winds rotating inward to an area of low atmospheric pressure?
a cyclone
what is an anticyclone?