The Atmosphere
What is pressure?
All forms of water falling from the sky.
What is precipitation?
The average weather at a location over a long period of time.
The environmental conditions at a specific time.
What is weather?
A scientist who studies and forecasts weather.
What is a meteorologist?
Makes up 21% of the air around us.
What is Oxygen
Particles in the air that block the sunlight and help cool the Earth.
What are aerosols?
When the sun is pointing directly at the Tropic of Cancer.
When cool air sinks, it creates ______ pressure at ground level.
What is high?
Implies that data, math, or modeling was used.
What is forecast?
The average Pounds Per Square Inch of pressure at sea level.
What is 14.7 PSI (or 15)?
The 6 types of aerosols.
What are salt, dust, ash, pollen, smoke, and man-made?
The line the sun is pointing at during the Winter Solstice.
What is the Tropic of Capricorn?
When high pressure, cooler air moves into an area of low pressure.
What is a cold front?
What pressure is measured with.
What is a barometer?
Liquid water in the air.
What is moisture?
Radiation, Conduction, and Convection.
What are the three ways energy transfers?
The climate zone we are currently in.
The 5 most common types of clouds.
A tool used to tell the direction the wind is coming from.
The amount of water vapor in the air relative to the maximum amount of vapor that the air can hold.
What is relative humidity?
What is temperature?
The patern of the Sun in the sky throughout the year.
What is an analemma?
A change in the direction of the wind that occurs every year.
What is a monsoon?
Can tell how far away something is, like rain, by sending out a signal and measuring the reflection of what it hits.
What is a doppler radar?