The process of a solid immediately becoming a gas, without becoming a liquid frist.
What is sublimation?
100
Atmosphere conditions at a given time and place.
What is weather?
100
Temperature change by changing pressure, not by adding or subtracting heat.
What is Adiabatic temperature change?
100
The transfer of heat from one object touching another.
What is conduction?
100
The higher the latitude, the further from the equator & the ______ the temperatures.
What is cooler?
200
Any form of water that falls from a cloud.
What is precipitation?
200
When the sun's rays are directly over the equator. Occurs each Autumn & Spring.
What is an equinox?
200
When elevated terrains, such as mountains, act as barriers to air flow. As air goes up water condenses & air cools; cold air sinks down on leeward side of mountain and expands.
What is orographic lifting?
200
The transfer of heat by moving fluids.
What is convection?
200
The further above sea level, the ______ the temperatures.
What is cooler?
300
An instrument for measuring relative humidity.
What is a hygrometer?
300
The Earth going around the sun is known as it's...
What is revolution?
300
Rain, snow, sleet, and hail are the four types of...
What is precipitation?
300
Solar radiation can be...
What are reflected, transmitted and absorbed?
300
As ice caps melt, there is less ______ ______, which causes the Earth to get hotter.
What is global albedo?
400
A gas becoming a solid, without first becoming a liquid.
What is deposition?
400
When the sun is directly over a tropic line. Occurs once in the Summer & once in the Winter.
What is a solstice?
400
the three types of clouds are...
What are cirrus, cumulus and stratus?
400
The transfer of heat by electro-magnetic waves.
What is radiation?
400
Clouds can shade an area and _______ sunlight.
What is reflect?
500
The temperature to which a parcel of air would need to be cooled to reach saturation.
What is a dew point?
500
78% of the atmospheric composition.
What is Nitrogen?
500
When a cold air mass meets a warm air mass it is known as a...
What is a front?
500
The ability of something to reflect light.
What is albedo?
500
Land heats and cools faster than _____. More _____ absorbs more heat and releases the heat slowly, helping to moderate temperatures.