Layers of the Atmosphere
Heat Transfer
Wind 1
Wind 2
Miscellaneous
100
The layer of the atmosphere where almost all weather takes place.
What is the troposphere?
100
TRUE OR FALSE: All 3 types of heat transfer occur in the atmosphere.
What is TRUE?
100
TRUE OR FALSE: Wind moves from areas of low pressure to high pressure.
What is FALSE? (wind moves from high pressure to low pressure)
100
TRUE OR FALSE: Wind is named based on where it is going.
What is FALSE? (wind is named based on where it came from)
100
The most abundant trace gas is this.
What is Argon?
200
The layer of the atmosphere where the ozone layer can be found.
What is the stratosphere?
200
The Earth releases some heat energy into space through this method of heat transfer.
What is radiation?
200
The Coriolis Effect causes winds to deflect in this direction in the Northern Hemisphere.
What is to the right?
200
The Coriolis Effect causes wind to deflect to this direction in the Southern Hemisphere.
What is to the left?
200
Nitrogen makes up this percent of Earth's atmosphere.
What is 78%?
300
List the layers of the atmosphere (all 5!) from closest to Earth's surface to farthest away.
What is the troposphere, the stratosphere, the mesosphere, the thermosphere, and the exosphere?
300
You touch a burner and it feels hot, so you pull away quickly. This type of heat transfer occurred between the burner and your hand.
What is conduction?
300
The Coriolis Effect is caused by this.
What is the rotation of Earth on its axis?
300
Uneven heating of the Earth occurs because of this.
What is the Earth is curved so different areas receive different amounts of radiation?
300
The wind belt that drives weather across the United States.
What is the Westerlies?
400
The layer of the atmosphere where x-ray radiation is absorbed.
What is the thermosphere?
400
You are boiling water. The burner heats the pot, which heats the water and causes this type of heat transfer in the water.
What is convection?
400
Create a diagram that shows a land breeze. Include high and low pressure, the type of day, and the movement of the air.
400
Explain what causes a land breeze.
What is the land is cooled more overnight, it creates a higher pressure over the land from the cool air and the air sinks... over the water, the air is warmer which creates low pressure so the air rises... this creates a convection current where air more from the land to the sea?
400
Earth's early atmosphere is very different from today's atmosphere. This gas was not present in early Earth's atmosphere, but is abundant today.
What is oxygen? (it came from plants!)
500
The layer of the atmosphere that has decreasing temperature as you increase in altitude due to moving away from the ozone layer.
What is the mesosphere?
500
This is what happens to solar energy once it reaches Earth.
What is it can be absorbed by atmosphere, land or water, or it can be reflected back into space?
500
Create a diagram that shows a sea breeze. Include high and low pressure, the type of day, and the movement of the air.
500
Explain what causes a sea breeze.
What is the land is heated more during the day, which causes low pressure... the low pressure creates rising air... cold air creates high pressure and sinks over the ocean, this creates a convection current where air moves from the sea to the land?
500
Warm air creates this type of pressure, which causes air to move in this way.
What is creates low pressure which causes air to rise?