Gases
What do we call chemicals that can destroy Ozone (o3)?
What is Chlorofluorocarbons or CFCs?
A large body of air that has similar temperatures and moisture.
What is Air Mass?
The temperature that air has to be to reach saturation.
What is Dew Point?
When a Liquid is turned into a Gas.
What is Evaporation?
The phenomenon where gases trap heat in the lower atmosphere warming the Earth.
What is the greenhouse effect?
What do we call chemicals with hydrogen, fluorine and carbon?
What is Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs)?
The force exerted by the weight of air above a point.
What is Air Pressure.
A line that connects points of temperature.
What is Isotherm?
When a Gas turns into a Liquid.
What is Condensation?
The effect of the Earth's rotation in the direction of the winds and the ocean currents.
What is the Coriolis Effect?
Gas that blocks some UV radiation from the sun
What is Ozone?
The ratio of the air's water vapor content to the water vapor capacity.
What is Relative Humidity.
What is Temperature?
Any form of water that falls from the clouds.
What is Precipitation?
The fraction of the total radiation reflected by a surface.
What is Albedo?
A colorless, a gas that can't be smelled and is from humans and animals.
What is Methane?
The boundary of 2 air masses.
What is a Front?
A phenomenon in which urban areas are warmer and the countryside is cooler.
What is the urban heat island effect?
Water in the form of Gas.
What is water vapor?
Rain containing acids that form in the atmosphere when factories let out greenhouse gases.
What is Acid Rain?
A suspension of droplets of liquid or solid partials in another gas.
What is Aerosol?
A low pressure center that spins counter clockwise in the air in the northern hemisphere.
What is a Cyclone/Hurricane?
The periodic change in wind patterns and the ocean in the southern Pacific, that causes weather changes in North America.
What is El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO)?
The state of air that has the maximum amount of water vapor that it can hold at once.
What is Saturated?
The gas part of a planet around the planet.
What is the Atmosphere?