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The type of radiation which is only partially absorbed by the ozone layer and therefore some reaches to the earth's surface
What is UVB?
The coldest point in the atmosphere
What is the mesopause
The area where the solar wind interacts with Earth's magnetic field is
What is the magnetosphere?
The way air normally moves in the atmosphere
What is from high pressure to low pressure?
The shield that protects the earth from harmful ultraviolet radiation
What is the ozone layer?
The most important and abundant greenhouse gas
What is water vapor?
The atmospheric layer which is least understood
What is the mesosphere?
The name given to the upper atmosphere because of its distinct layers
What is the heterosphere?
High-altitude winds that are concentrated in narrow meandering bands of rapidly moving air
What are jet streams?
The amount of energy available to heat Earth's land, water, and air is called Earth's
What is the energy budget?
The global winds which occur at the earth's surface in high latitudes
What are polar easterlies?
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The normal value of atmospheric pressure at sea level
What is 1013 milibars?
The process in which the temperature of a gas rises as the gas is compressed with no heat lost is called
What is adiabatic heating?
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Downslope wind caused by cooling air near a slope
What is katabatic wind?
The temperature layer of the atmosphere which contains the ozone layer
What is the stratosphere?
The upper-troposphere waves associated with the polar front jet stream are called
What is the Rossby waves?
Wind that occurs when a large amount of dense, cold air spills over a mountain range
What is a fall wind?
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The type of current which causes most of the earth's weather
What is convection currents?
Auroras that occur in southern latitudes are called
What is aurora australis?
Wind that occurs when warm air over open terrain rises, drawing cooler air from under trees
What is a forest breeze?
The portion of Earth's magnetic field which stretches away from the sun
What is magnetotail?
The point on the earth's elliptical orbit where the Earth receives the greatest amount of insolation
What is perihelion?
Cool, gentle wind blowing in from the water to the land
What is a sea breeze?
The unit used to measure the amount of energy something gains, loses,or uses in one second
What is the watt?
The reason afternoon is usually the warmest part of the day
What is trapped heat remains in the atmosphere?
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The effect which causes wet and dry seasons through a seasonal change in wind direction
What is the monsoon effect?
The U.S. government broadcasts the official time for the country from a short-wave radio station in Colorado. These broadcasts can be heard by the lower 48 states because
What is radio waves bounce off the ionosphere?
The feature which marks the bottom of the mesosphere
What is the stratopause?
The reason a compass always points north
What is the compass points towards Earth's magnetic pole?
Is it still Christmas?
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At the equator, air rises and begins traveling outward, toward the poles. The reason this air sinks back to Earth long before it reaches the poles is
What is the air is cooled by low temperatures at high altitudes?
The reason cyclones rotate in opposite directions in the Southern vs the Northern Hemisphere
What is the Coriolis effect bends the winds in different directions?