A Recipe for Air
A Balancing Act
Getting Hot in Here
It's Really Layered
Everyone Knows its Windy
Weather or Not
The Hunger Games
100
This is the most abundant gas in the atmosphere.
What is nitrogen?
100
This is the reason gases tend to stay pretty constant in our atmosphere.
What is recycling of atmospheric materials?
100
Energy from the sun reaches Earth through this method.
What is radiation?
100
This is the layer where nearly all weather takes place.
What is the troposphere?
100
Movement of air caused by uneven heating creating pockets of rising and falling air.
Wind
100
The short-term atmospheric, temperature, and precipitation conditions of an area
weather
100
DAILY DOUBLE
This process in the carbon cycle stores atmosphere carbon in the biosphere.
Photosynthesis
200
This gas makes up approximately 21% of the Earth's atmosphere.
What is oxygen?
200
What would increase air’s ability to hold more water vapor or increase the humidity?
An increase in temperature
200
This is responsible for the four seasons in mid-latitudes.
Uneven heating caused by changing angles of sunlight due to earth's axial tilt
200
This is part of the thermosphere where the air is highly ionized producing auroras.
What is the ionosphere / exosphere?
200
The Earth's rotation makes the wind curve.
The Coriolis Effect
200
The symbol for a cold front is a blue curved line with these shapes on it
What is are triangles?
200
Why are the phosphorous and nitrogen cycles so important to all living organisms?
Phosphorous and Nitrogen are both key components of DNA / nucleic acids.
300
This gas varies in amounts through out Earth's atmosphere, being more abundant in tropical areas and less in desert areas.
What is water vapor?
300
This is one way oxygen is added to our atmosphere.
What is photosynthesis?
300
When warm air rises it cools due to the decrease in pressure.
Adiabatic cooling
300
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This layer of the atmosphere heats up as altitude increasing because the ozone layer is located at the top of it, absorbing much of the sun's UV rays.
What is the stratosphere?
300
The direction and origin of weather patterns in the United States are influenced by this air circulation system.
The Westerlies
300
This type of air mass is most likely to originate over Central Mexico
Continental Tropical (cT)
300
How do humans impact both the phosphorous and nitrogen cycles?
Through the use of fertilizers?
400
DAILY DOUBLE
Which of the following is not a greenhouse gas?
- CO2 - H2O - SO2
- CH4 - CFCs - N2O
SO2 aka Sulfur dioxide
400
Current studies of the atmosphere show that CO2 gas is increasing in our atmosphere due to these reasons.
What is the burning of fossil fuels?
400
How does the cooling of warm air fuel thunderstorms? Use your vocabulary term in your explanation.
latent heat energy is released into the atmosphere from water as it cools . This causes air to rise more and condense more creating large clouds and storms.
400
It gets colder in this layer with altitude because this layer is heated by Earth's surface radiating heat from it.
What is the troposphere?
400
The name for the rising air cells along the equation that cool and sink at approximately 60ºN or 60ºS.
Hadley cells
400
A pair of air masses, neither of which is strong enough to replace the other.
What is stationary front?
400
Humans burn fossil fuels to release carbon stored in the geosphere. What natural process can also contribute Carbon Dioxide to the atmosphere from the geosphere?
Volcanic eruptions
500
This event resulted in a large decrease in the Hydrogen and Helium concentrations in our atmosphere.
Solar Winds during early earth formation.
500
Is the air pressure going to be higher at the peak of a mountain or at sea level? Explain.
At sea level because there is more air above you pushing down at lower elevation.s
500
Explain how deep, global, ocean circulation currents form and cool the atmosphere at the equator.
Ocean water absorbs the heat from the atmosphere. As it:
A) Evaporates creating saltier, denser water and
B) As currents push the water north it cools and gets denser
It sinks and then flows until it resurfaces at areas of upwelling where it is heated again.
500
This layer of the atmosphere is where meteorites are seen and it cools with altitude because the ozone layer is below it.
What is the mesosphere?
500
Use air circulation currents to explain why there is relatively little precipitation at the poles.
Polar air masses are cold, dry and descending and have already spent their water.
500
DAILY DOUBLE
How will the weather change in Columbus, OH over the next 24 hours?
It will go from clear and warm to raining and cold
500
This form of nitrogen is required by living things, but unavailable in Nitrogen's most common form. What is it and what two ways can it be made available for life?
NO3
Bacterial nitrogen fixation & lightning strikes in the atmosphere
9999
What weather event is about to occur:
Severe Thunderstorm