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Atmosphere Characteristics
Layers of the Atmosphere
Heating and Temperature of the Atmosphere
Water in the Atmosphere
100
As you go up in the atmosphere pressure _______.
What is decreases?
100
The layers of the atmosphere.
What is the troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, and thermosphere?
100
Conduction.
What is the transfer of heat by 2 objects directly touching?
100
States of water.
What is solid, liquid, and gas?
200
The difference between weather and climate
What is climate is the average temp over a long period of time and weather is the conditions of the atmosphere at a certain time.
200
Where most weather occurs.
What is the troposphere?
200
Transfer of heat by electromagnetic waves.
What is radiation?
200
Deposition
What is to go straight from a gas to a solid?
300
A pollutant that goes directly into the atmosphere.
What is a primary pollutant?
300
Between the tropopause and stratosphere.
What is the maximum ozone?
300
Albedo.
What is the amount of light something reflects.
300
To go straight from a gas to a solid.
What is sublimation?
400
Ozone blocks _____.
What is harmful, ultraviolent rays.
400
When you hit the maximum ozone temp begins to _____.
What is increase?
400
A disturbance in an electromagnetic field.
What is light waves?
400
Dew point and saturation.
What is temp at which you get 100% humidity and how much water air can hold?
500
Atmosphere composition
What is 78% nitrogen, 21% oxygen, 1% everything else?
500
Temperature increases in the thermosphere because of this.
What is radiation not being blocked out?
500
How to determine temperature.
What is land, water, latitude, altitude, cloud cover, and albedo?
500
Humidity, saturation, relative humidity, and dewpoint have to do with these 2 major factors.
What is temp and moisture?