Coming Around Again
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Global Winds
The Basics
Wild Card
100
Processes that repeat over and over.
What are cycles?
100
The layer of the atmosphere closest to Earth that holds clouds.
What is the troposphere?
100
The calm regions at 30 degrees north and south of the equator.
What are the horse latitudes?
100
The whole layer of air that surrounds and protects the Earth.
What is the atmosphere?
100
Prefix that means "middle."
What is alto?
200
An endless path of evaporating, condensing, and falling back to earth.
What is the water cycle?
200
The layer of the atmosphere that is SO thin, many do not even consider it a layer.
What is the exosphere?
200
The global winds that blow from the east, just north and south of the equator.
What are the trade winds?
200
The distance above sea level.
What is altitude?
200
The direction of a high pressure system in the Northern Hemisphere.
What is clockwise?
300
The repeating process in nature that involves photosynthesis since plants take in water/carbon dioxide to create oxygen/sugar, while animals breathe in oxygen, eat sugar, and then exhale carbon dioxide.
What is the carbon cycle?
300
The densest layer of the Earth's atmosphere.
What is the troposphere?
300
Blow east between between 30 and 60 degrees latitude.
What are westerlies?
300
The amount of mass in a given volume.
What is density?
300
Movement of air caused by the uneven heating of land and water near the shore DURING THE DAY.
What is a sea breeze?
400
Circular motion of heat since warm fluids (liquid or gas) rise and cool fluids sink.
What is convection?
400
The layer of the Earth's atmosphere where meteors burn up.
What is the mesosphere?
400
The calm region on the equator where warm air rises.
What are the doldrums?
400
The constantly changing condition of the Earth's atmosphere at a particular time and place.
What is weather?
400
Name for an air mass that that is cold but moist.
What is maritime polar?
500
The repeating process in nature that releases the most abundant element back into the atmosphere after organisms die and decay.
What is the nitrogen cycle?
500
The layer of the Earth's atmosphere that protects us by absorbing harmful radiation due to O3 molecules.
What is stratosphere?
500
The curving of global winds due to the rotation of the Earth.
What is the Coriolis effect?
500
Process of going from a gas to a liquid.
What is condensation?
500
Type of boundary between air masses that is associated with brief, heavy showers from cumulonimbus clouds.
What is a cold front?