dust and sand
Which particles fall first to the ground from the atmosphere. Bigger or smaller dust particles.
Bigger
Can aerosols, particularly mineral dusts, impact weather as well as global and regional climate. YES OR NO.
YES
Airborne dust does not presents serious risks for human health. YES OR NO.
Yes, it does.
When a Saharan dust storm occur, what rain forest does it benefit by add new fertilization to it.
The Amazon Rainforest.
These are 3 states were affected by the dust storms.
What are Kansas, Texas and Oklahoma?
Haboobs are mainly caused by these.
Thunderstorms, which increase wind speed over a wide area.
Do dust particles increase or decrease the growth of cloud droplets and ice crystals?
Increase.
In 2014 how many premature deaths were there by dust affecting the human body. (A.200,000, B.10 mil, C.400,000.)
C.400,000
How do dust storms affect plant growth? (positive and negative)
Some plants need direct solar radiation, so it can stunt their growth, but the nutrients can also help promote growth.
This is what the farmers used that helped them plow many more acres a day.
What is a tractor?
__% of aerosols in the troposphere are dust particles from wind erosion. A.20%. B.80%. C.40%
C.40%
When dust particles create weather and climate does it A.Absorption, B. Scatter, or C. Reflect
B. Scatter
Does deathly disease lurk in dust storms. YES or NO.
YES
Does dust improve or worsen river and stream water quality.
Worsen.
This covered the land before the Dust Bowl.
What is grass?
Name one region on the earth where dust storms occur commonly.
Northern Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, Central Asia and China
Which factors do dust factors need to have to be absorbed by solar radiation. (size and shape, or how many dust particles there are)
size, shape, also mineralogical and chemical composition.
What is the cause of Valley Fever?
Fungus, coccidioidomycosis.
Does dust storms give humans better or worse visibility while on planes/boats/ or cars.
Worse, it can delay airplane flights or even worse, it can damage engines.
This cause of the dust bowl was man made.
What is over plowing and misusing the land?
What happens to the dust particles while turbulent mixing and convective updrafts happens in the troposphere atmosphere.
Dust particles are raised to higher levels of the troposphere
Airborne dust can create what kind of effect.
The greenhouse effect.
Can dust particles affect external or internal human organs if they breath it in.
Both.
When a Saharan dust storm occur what two elements does it add to the ocean.
iron and phosphorus
This is what the farmers planted when they plowed the soil and removed the trees and grasses.
What is wheat?