Layers of the Atmosphere
The Earths highest layer of the atmosphere
What is the Exosphere
Drives all weather on Earth
What is the Sun
Used to measure air pressure
What is a barometer?
Primary form of water in the atmosphere?
What is Water Vapor
The feels like temperature in the summer?
What is heat index
This layer is home to the Earth's Ozone layer
What is the Stratosphere
The coldest temperature matter can reach, atoms and molecules stop moving
What is absolut 0
Lines connecting points of equal pressure
What are isobars?
Relative humidity of the air is 100% it condenses onto the ground and surfaces
What is Dew Point
Solar radiation warms the ground first, then the ground warms the air slowly.
What is Temperature Lag
Coldest place on Earth, with an average of minus 120 o F
What is the Mesosphere
These 2 things are what all temperature scales are based on
What are freezing and boiling point of water?
Makes objects traveling around Earth appear as if they are moving on a curved path
What is the Coriolis Effect?
Used to measure Relative Humidity
What is a Sling Psychrometer?
Often associated with cool dry air
What is High Pressure?
Known as the "ocean of air"
What is the Atmosphere
the transfer of energy through the electromagnetic waves
What is Radiant Heat Transfer
Winds that will blow from low to high pressure
What is Pressure Gradient Force
Cloud droplets collide and join to become rain drops.
What is the Collision and Coalescence process
Long Term changes in the weather at a specific location.
What is Climate?
The most important layer in the atmosphere
What is the Troposphere
Type of heat transfer that drives our weather
What is Convective Heat Transfer
It flows from West to East
What is the Jet Stream
This only forms in cumulonimbus clouds with strong updrafts.
What are Hailstones
When sweat evaporates it cools our skin
What is why we sweat?