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Winds
Seasons
Air Pollution
Vocabulary
Miscellaneous
100
Prevailing winds that blow Northeast towards the equator.
What are trade winds?
100
The tilt of the Earth.
What is 23.45 degrees?
100
The combination of vehicle exhaust, sunlight, and air.
What is ozone?
100
Periods of the year marked by weather patterns and daylight hours.
What are seasons?
100
The spinning motion of an object about its axis.
What is rotation?
200
Prevailing winds that blow from East to West.
What is prevailing easterlies
200
When the Northern hemisphere is tilted directly towards the sun this season occurs.
What is summer?
200
Dust is an example of this type of pollutant.
What is primary pollutant?
200
The movement of air caused by differences in air pressure.
What is wind?
200
This molecule is dangerous when found in the lower atmosphere but helpful when found in the upper atmosphere.
What is ozone?
300
The difference between these two things is what causes winds to occur.
What is high and low pressure
300
The reason we have seasons.
What is the Earth's tilt?
300
Chemicals called CFCs cause this to occur in the upper atmosphere.
What is the ozone hole.
300
The apparent curving of the path of a moving object from an otherwise straight path due to the Earth's rotation.
What is The Coriolis Effect?
300
An imaginary line around which Earth spins.
What is Earth's axis?
400
Prevailing winds that blow from west to east.
What are westerlies?
400
When the northern hemisphere is experiencing spring, the southern hemisphere is experiencing this season.
What is fall?
400
ozone and smog are examples of this type of pollutant.
What is secondary pollutants?
400
Rain, sleet, or snow that contains a high concentration of acids.
What is acid precipitation?
400
The process by which heat is transferred through a material or through contact.
What is conduction?
500
The name for the area surrounding the equator where little or no wind occurs.
What is the doldrums?
500
This is the name for in which the day and night are of equal duration.
What is equinox?
500
These are used in factories to filter out some of the pollution before it enters the air.
What are scrubbers?
500
The contamination of the atmosphere by the introduction of pollutants from human and natural resources
What is air pollution?
500
The process by which water is transferred from a liquid to a gas.
What is evaporation?