Fundamental nutrient for living organisms. Returns to the atmosphere through combustion of biomass and denitrification.
What is nitrogen (N2)
100
What layer does weather occur?
What is troposphere
100
A low pressure air mass is generally associated with...
What is cloudy or stormy weather
100
On the leeward side of a mountain range, one would expect...
What is less clouds and less rain than on the windward side
100
2,000,000 BCE to 12,000 BCE
large glacial ice sheets covered much of North America, Europe, and Asia
What is Pleistocene Ice Age
200
Volume of compound has increased about 25% in the last 300 years due to the burning of fossil fuels and deforestation.
What is carbon dioxide (CO2)
200
What is the coldest layer?
What is mesosphere
200
La Nina would produce what effects? Name 2
What is more rain in southeast Asia, wetter winters in the Pacific Northwest region of the US, warmer and drier winters in the southwest and southeast US, more Atlantic hurricanes
200
The gas that is responsible for trapping most of the heat in the lower atmosphere is...
What is water vapor
200
900 CE to 1200 CE
warm period, the snow line in the Rocky Mountains was about 400 yards.
What is Little Climatic Optimum
300
Contributes to the greenhouse effect. Increased about 150% due to the use of fossil fuels, coal mining, landfills, grazers, and flooding.
What is methane (CH4)
300
What is the difference between weather and climate?
Weather is the thing that is occurring and climate is the total of all weather occurring.
300
Weather along the equator?
What is warm, moist air rises
300
The surface with the lowest albedo is...
What is black topsoil
300
1550 CE to 1850 CE
global temperature were at their coldest since the beginning of the Holocene.
What is Little Ice Age
400
Increasing about 0.3% per year. Sources include burning of fossil fuels, use of fertilizers, burning biomass, deforestation, and conversion to agricultural land.
What is nitrous oxide (N2O)
400
Definition: the primary way energy is transferred from hotter to colder regions in Earth's atmosphere and is the primary determinant of weather patterns.
What is convection
400
Characteristics or requirements of a monsoon? Name 2
A seasonal reversal of wind patterns, large land areas cut off from continental air masses by mountain ranges and surrounded by large bodies of water, different heating and cooling rates between the ocean and the continent, extremely heavy rainfall
400
Jet streams over the US travel primarily...
What is west to east
500
Makes up to 97% of stratosphere. Absorbs UV radiation. Produced during the production of photochemical smog.
What is ozone (O3)
500
Regional climates are most influenced by...
What is latitude and altitude
500
An atmospheric condition in which the air temperature rises with increasing altitude, holding surface air down and preventing dispersion of pollutant, known as..
What is temperature inversion
500
The correct arrangements of atmospheric layers, arranged in order from the most distant from Earth's surface to the one closest to Earth's surface...
What is thermosphere, mesosphere, stratosphere, troposphere