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Sun
Global Wind
Solar Energy
Local Wind
Water in the Atmosphere
100
About this percent of the incoming solar energy is reflected back into space
What is "30"
100
Winds that blow over long distances from a specific direction
What is "Global Winds"
100
About this percent of the sun’s energy is absorbed by clouds and gases
What is "20"
100
The breezes that occur where land meets a large body of this examples of local winds.
What is "Water"
100
The amount of water vapor in the air is called this.
What is "Humidity"
200
Solar radiated heat enters the Earth, reflects off the surface then strikes this gas in the atmosphere and are reradiated back to the surface.
What is "CO2 or Carbon Dioxide"
200
Global winds move in a series of huge bands referred to as this.
What is "Convection Cells"
200
Certain gases in the atmosphere, including water vapor and carbon dioxide allow visible light to pass but absorb most of this.
What is "Infrared"
200
A breeze that blows over a short distance
What is "Local Wind"
200
Water vapor typically condenses as dew, frost clouds, or this.
What is "Fog"
300
The atmosphere is heated primarily by energy that is this by Earth’s surface.
What is "Reradiated"
300
The bands are caused by temperature these across Earth’s surface
What is "Variations"
300
Clouds form as warm moist air rises and water vapor condenses here.
What is "Atmosphere or Troposphere"
300
Cool air over water that flows toward land
What is "Sea Breeze"
300
The temperature at which air becomes saturated is called its ___ ____.
What is "Dew Point"
400
Earth’s surface, warming the lower atmosphere in a process called this.
What is "Greenhouse Effect"
400
Trade winds, westerlies, and polar these are examples of global winds
What is "Easterlies"
400
The Earth rotates around this.
What is "Its Axis"
400
Warm air expands and rises creating low pressure in the area above the land, then this rushes in to replace it
What is "Cool Air"
400
These are flat layer clouds that cover much or all of the sky.
What is "Stratus or Stratus Clouds"
500
Earth's surface is heated mainly from this source.
What is "Sun"
500
These are wind belts just north and south of the equator.
What is "Trade Winds or Trade"
500
Daily Double<\ins> Energy is transferred within the troposphere in these three ways:
What is "Radiation, Convection, Conduction"
500
Local winds are caused by this of Earth’s surface within a small region
What is "Unequal Heating"
500
Daily Double<\ins> For a cloud to form solid particles such as this and this must be present for the water vapor to condense upon.
What is "Dust and Salt"