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Atmosphere Characteristics
Earth-Sun Relationships
Layers of the Atmosphere
Heating the Atmosphere
Temperature Controls
100
What is constantly changing and refers to the state of the atmosphere at any given time and place?
Weather
100
Seasons change due to the Earth's position relative to what?
The Sun
100
The 2nd layer of the atmosphere, after the troposphere...
Stratosphere
100
What is energy transferred from one object to another?
Heat
100
What is the influence geographic setting and temperatures experienced at a specific location referred to as?
Geographic Position
200
What is based on observations of weather that have been collected over many years and describes a place or region?
Climate
200
What are the two principal motions does earth have?
Rotation & Revolution
200
The layer of the atmosphere immediately above the stratosphere...
Mesosphere
200
What occurs when light bounces off an object?
Reflection
200
What heats up more rapidly and to higher temperatures than water?
Land
300
What is the source of all clouds and precipitation?
Water Vapor
300
What date does the summer solstice happen on?
June 21 or 22
300
The region of the atmosphere immediately above the mesosphere...
Thermosphere
300
What produces a larger number of weaker rays that travel in different directions?
Scattering
300
What is the fraction of total radiation that is reflected by any surface?
Albedo
400
Three oxygen atoms form what?
Ozone
400
What date does the autumn equinox happen on?
September 21 or 22
400
What is the bottom layer of the atmosphere? This is where we live.
Troposphere
400
What percentage of solar energy strikes the top of the atmosphere?
50%
400
What are lines on a weather map that connect points where temperature is the same?
Isotherms
500
What happens to the air as you travel away from the Earth?
Rapidly thins
500
The length of daylight compared to the length of darkness is determined by what?
Earth's position in orbit
500
The atmosphere can be divided vertically into four layers based on what?
Temperature
500
What is the transfer of energy through space by electromagnetic waves that travel out in all directions?
Radiation
500
Which direction to isotherms generally trend?
East and West