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ATMOSPHERIC HEATING
CLOUDS
AIR POLLUTION
GLOBAL AND LOCAL WINDS
ATMOSPHERE
100
GRADUAL INCREASE IN AVERAGE GLOBAL TEMPERATURE
What is global warming?
100
Thin, feathery, white clouds found at high altitudes
What is cirrus?
100
Forms when ozone and vehicle exhaust react with sunlight
What is smog?
100
Polar easterlies, westerlies, and trade winds
What are global winds?
100
lowest layer of the atmosphere
What is the troposphere?
200
Transfer of thermal energy by the circulation or movement of a liquid of gas
What is convection?
200
Dark stratus clouds that produce light to heavy continuous rain
What is nimbostratus?
200
can reduce indoor air pollution
What is ventilation?
200
the movement of air caused by differences in air pressure
What is wind?
200
the atmosphere is held around the Earth with this
What is gravity?
300
Process by which gases in the atmosphere absorb thermal energy and radiate back to Earth
What is the Greenhouse effect?
300
Thunderstorms are produced from this type of cloud
What is cumulonimbus?
300
requires many industries to use pollution control devices such as scrubbers
What is The Clean Air Act?
300
separated by convection cells
What are pressure belts?
300
protects life on Earth by absorbing harmful ultravioloet radiation
What is ozone layer?
400
Transfer of thermal energy through a material
What is Thermal Conduction?
400
This type of cloud looks like piles of cotton balls
What is cumulus?
400
changes the balance of a soil's chemistry
What is audification?
400
blow from 30 degrees latitude almost to the equator on both hemispheres
What are trade winds?
400
makes up most of the atmosphere
What is nitrogen?
500
Balance between Earth's incoming and outgoing energy
What is radiation balance?
500
Clouds that form in layers covers the sky and blocks out the sun
What is stratus?
500
contamination of the armosphere by the introduction of pollutants from human and natural resources
What is air pollution?
500
narrow belts of high speed winds that blow in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere
What are jet streams?
500
air temperatures changes as this increases
What is altitude?