Layers of the Atmosphere
What is the lowest layer of the atmosphere?
What is the troposphere?
What is a common pollutant from vehicles?
What is carbon dioxide?
What is an air mass?
A large mass of air.
What are the winds that blow near the equator called?
What are the Trade Winds?
What is conduction?
What is the transfer of heat through direct contact?
Which layer contains the ozone layer?
What is the stratosphere?
Name a natural source of air pollution.
What is volcanic activity, wildfires, dust storms, etc?
What occurs when warm air slowly moves into a region of cold air?
What is a warm front?
How many convection cells are found on Earth?
What is 6?
What method of heat transfer gets heat from the Sun to Earth?
What is radiation?
What happens to temperature as you go higher in the troposphere?
What is temperature decreases?
What gases trap heat in the atmosphere?
What are greenhouse gases (Carbon dioxide, Methane, Nitrogen oxides, etc)?
What type of weather occurs due to a cold front?
What is brief, but heavy precipitation and even thunderstorms?
What are the three phases of El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO)?
What is El Nino (warm phase), La Nina (cold phase), and Normal Conditions?
Describe how convection circulates air in the atmosphere.
What is warmer, less dense air rises while cooler, less dense air falls?
What is the main function of the ozone layer?
What is protecting Earth from UV rays?
Explain the greenhouse effect.
What is greenhouse gasses trap radiation and heat that is reflected off Earth's surface which warms Earth's atmosphere?
What is an occluded front?
What is when a cold front overtakes a warm front?
What causes wind?
What is the movement of air from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure due to the uneven heating of Earth?
How does the heating of land compare to the heating of water?
What is land heats much more quickly than water?
What two sub-layers are found in the thermosphere?
What are the ionosphere and the exosphere?
Describe the difference between the natural greenhouse effect and the enhanced greenhouse effect. (Be more specific than it's hotter!!!)
What is more re-radiated heat is reflected back into the atmosphere by greenhouse gases in the enhanced greenhouse effect while more re-radiated heat is released into space in the natural greenhouse effect?
What is the source region for maritime tropical air masses?
What is over the ocean and near the equator?
Describe how El Nino influences ocean temperatures in the Pacific Ocean.
What is surface waters warm in the eastern Pacific?
What are three real-life examples of convection in the atmosphere that we've covered in class?
What are: Sea-Breeze, Land-Breeze, Hadley Cells, Hurricanes, Coastal Fog, Convection Cells?