Clouds
In this method of cloud formation, winds force air masses up mountains, which causes them to condense.
What is orographic lifting?
The layer of the atmosphere which contains the most mass
What is the troposphere?
What is a rotation?
These intermolecular forces in between water molecules cause most of water's interesting properties
What is Hydrogen Bonding?
The temperature an air parcel needs to be at to be fully saturated with the water vapor it has
Water vapor condenses on these tiny particles to form clouds.
What are cloud condensation nuclei?
This layer of the atmosphere is heated by the ozone layer, but cools as you rise.
What is the mesosphere?
The number of degrees Earth is tilted off it's axis(to the nearest tenth)
What is 23.5?
What is latent heat?
This force due to the Earth's rotation causes objects in the Northern Hemisphere to veer to the east as they travel away from the Equator.
What is the Coriolis Force?
In this process, precipitation is created when ice crystals grow and fall out of the cloud.
What is the Bergeron Process?
The noble gas which makes up approximately 0.9% of the atmosphere
What is argon?
The "wobble" of Earth's tilt, which changes where the poles are facing without changing the tilt.
What is precession?
The amount of heat needed in calories for a 5 gram ice cube at the melting point to melt.
What is 400 calories?
These winds occur during the day, because of the specific heat of water being higher than that of land.
What are sea breezes?
This cloud stretch the tallest out of all clouds, stretching from low to high altitudes.
What are cumulonimbus clouds?
This atmospheric phenomena shine below and above the Sun in the form of a vertical beam.
What are light pillars?
The cycles of Earth's orbital properties over thousands of years, named after a Serbian geophysicist
What are Milankovitch Cycles?
The amount of heat required to transform a solid into a liquid
What is heat of fusion?
Dr Evil accidentally creates an anticyclone after thinking it was dangerous. Annoyed, he throws it at Australia to decrease precipitation over there. In what direction would the anticyclone be rotating?
What is counterclockwise?
This type of cloud forms when warm, moist air goes over cold ground, and reaches its dew point.
What is advection fog?
_____ and ______ absorb nearly all of the extremely energetic ultraviolet light, protecting us from damage
What are nitrogen and oxygen?
The two of Earth's varying orbital properties which correspond to orbital tilt and the change in Earth's distance from the Sun.
What are obliquity and eccentricity?
The number of joules it takes to heat ten grams of water from it's freezing point to it's boiling point.
What is 418.4?
The rate an air parcel cools as it rises, after water vapor begins condensing out of the cloud.
What is wet adiabatic lapse rate?