What Warms Earth
The temperature in New York is different from that in Florida because of this.
What is insolation?
There are this many layers in the atmosphere.
What is 5 layers?
This speeds up gas particles making them spread out into a larger space.
What is temperature?
Winds that blow between 30 degrees North and 30 degrees South are known as this.
What are trade winds?
The movement of air from water to land.
What is a sea breeze?
This imaginary line around the Earth is where the planet is warmest.
What is the Equator?
This layer is the air we breathe and where most weather happens.
What is the troposphere?
This is the measure of how much space air takes up.
What is volume?
This blows steadily over long distances in a predictable direction.
What are global winds?
The movement of air from land to water.
What is a land breeze?
The solar energy that reaches a planet's surface.
What is insolation?
The condition of the troposphere at a particular time and place.
What is weather?
The amount of water vapor in air.
What is humidity?
This causes winds to curve.
What is the Coriolis Effect?
The cool air that moves up a mountain as the mountain air is heated by the sun and rises.
What is a valley breeze?
It gets warmer at the equator because of this feature of the Earth.
Why is the Earth a sphere?
The force put on a given area by the weight of the air above it.
What is air pressure?
The height above Earth's surface that affects air.
What is altitude?
Because cold air is this it causes it to sink.
What is dense?
Cool air that flows down into the valley as the heat in the valley increases.
What is a mountain breeze?
Because New York is further from the Sun than Miami, it receives less of this.
What is heat energy?
These are the names of all 5 layers of the atmosphere.
What is the troposphere, the stratosphere, the mesosphere, the thermosphere, and the exosphere?
These four things affect air pressure.
What is volume, temperature, altitude, and humidity?
This is the name of the winds between 30 degrees North and 60 degrees North and the winds between 30 degrees South and 60 degrees South.
What are prevailing westerlies?
This measures the pressure of air on an airtight tube of mercury.
What is an aneroid barometer?