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This is the layer of the atmosphere weather occurs

What is the troposphere?

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This is the day-to-day variation in atmospheric variables.
What is weather?
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The two variables, average temperature and precipitation, are used to find this.
What is climate?
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This process occurs when water receives enough energy to change from a liquid to a gas.

What is vaporization or evaporation?

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This is the most abundant gas in troposphere.

What is nitrogen?

200

In this layer of the atmosphere the temp decreases from 0C to -90C.

What is the mesosphere? (Test tip: "mesosphere" is similar to "meteor".)

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This pressure system produces cloudy and rainy weather and winds move counterclockwise, inward and up.

What is low pressure?

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This property causes areas near oceans to have smaller seasonal variations in temperature.

What is the specific heat of water?

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The name of the process that explains how water enters the ground.
What is infiltration?
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This is the ultimate source of energy for wind

What is the sun?

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This is the layer of there atmosphere that increases in temp because it houses the ozone layer.

What is the stratosphere?

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measures air pressure
What is a barometer?
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This is the warming of water in the Pacific Ocean near South America due to a weakening of easterly winds; brings storms and flooding; disrupts ocean food chains

What is El Niño?

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This is the measurement of the percentage amount of space in a soil available to transport or hold water.

What is porosity?

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This symbol alternates between blue triangles and red half circles that point in alternating directions

What is the symbol for a stationary front?

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This is the outermost major layer of the atmosphere.

What is the thermosphere? 

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This is created when you have low pressure systems in the tropics, high evaporation rate over open water, sea surface temperatures in excess of 26.5°C, and the convergence of air along a boundary between warm and cold air masses.
What is a hurricane?
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Greenhouse gases in the atmosphere that absorb solar radiation and have the most significant impact on the temperature of Earth’s atmosphere? (Notice it says "gases", name at least two!)

What is carbon dioxide and water vapor? (Or methane, nitrous oxide, chlorofluorocarbons/CFC's...)

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A flood is most likely to occur on top of a soil that has this type of permeability and porosity.

What is low permeability and low porosity ? 

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This is the part of land that drains to the same river; separated by areas of higher elevation.

What is a drainage basin/watershed?

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This is the relationship between altitude and barometric pressure. 

As altitude increases, pressure decreases. 

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This type of front brings a rapid change in weather with short-lived heavy rains. 

What is a cold front?

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The main contributor to the increasing amount of carbon dioxide present in the atmosphere.

What is the burning of fossil fuels?

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The portion of land that drains to the same river; separated by areas of higher elevation.

What is a drainage basin/watershed?

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This traps electromagnetic radiation by gases like CO2 and leads to higher temperatures

What is the greenhouse effect?