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Atmosphere Composition
Atmosphere Layers
What Causes Weather
Wind
Severe Weather
100
What is the most abundant gas in the atmosphere
Nitrogen
100
The criteria used to separate the atmosphere into layers.
What is major temperature change
100
Location of greatest heating from sunlight
What is the equator
100
How local wind gets named
What is direction of origin
100
The only type of severe weather that is not associated with fronts.
What is a Hurricane
200
What is replaced through respiration
Carbon Dioxide
200
The layer with the coldest region in the atmosphere
What is the mesosphere
200
Temperature of air that will have a higher pressure
What is cold air
200
Type of wind that forms near a large body of water during the day
What is Sea Breeze
200
Tornadoes are created by this process when cold, dry air coming from Canada that collides with warm, moist air coming from the Gulf of Mexico
What is Convergence
300
What is the most effective GHG
Water Vapor
300
The specific location of the aurora borealis
What is Ionosphere
300
The transfer of heat in a fluid
What is convection
300
Calm wind that occurs near the equator
What is the Doldrums
300
Type of severe weather that is powered by the heat of condensation.
What is a Hurricane
400
What is the process of fixing nitrogen into usable forms
Bacteria or Lightning
400
The layer that contains the ozone layer
What is Stratosphere
400
Type of air that can hold a lot of moisture
What is warmer air
400
Global wind pattern that brings weather to the United States.
What is Prevailing Westerlies
400
When a cold front rapidly pushes warm, moist air higher in the atmosphere, causing thunderstorms.
What is frontal wedging
500
What is increased due to livestock and landfills
Methane
500
The lapse rate
What is 5.5 degrees Celsius per kilometer
500
The dew point when frost forms
What is below freezing
500
Apparent change in the path of any fluid above the surface due to the rotation of the Earth.
What is the Coriolis Effect
500
These are created when "negative leaders" and "positive streamers" connect.
What is Lightning