Earth's Atmosphere
Due to Earth's tilt the sun's rays are least direct
at the poles
List 3 types of severe weather
tornado, hurricane, extreme wind, hail, ect.
Using less water is one way to practice water ____.
Conservation
list the 2 most abundant gases in Earth's Atmosphere
Nitrogen and Oxygen
which layer of the atmosphere does most weather occur?
The troposphere
When a warm air mass and a cold air mass meet and neither can move the other, the result is a(an) ____.
Occluded Front
Any form of water that falls from clouds is called ____.
Precipitation
Give an example of common greenhouse gases
carbon dioxide, water vapor, methane, nitrous oxide, hydrofluorocarbons
Air has pressure because ___________ _______ __________.
Air has mass
Winds are caused by differences in ____.
Air Pressure
Water that fills the cracks and spaces in underground soil and rock layers is called ____.
Groundwater
The greenhouse effect is....
the process by which gases hold or trap heat in the atmosphere
One of the layers of the atmosphere is host to the ozone layer. This layer absorbs about 90% of this type of radiation;
Ultraviolet Radiation
The average, year-after-year conditions of temperature, precipitation, winds, and cloud in an area are known as its ____.
Climate
The three major steps of the water cycle are ____.
evaporation, condensation, and precipitation
the 2 main reasons for sea level rise
(2) thermal expansion of warming sea water
Earth's Atmosphere is important to living things because it
provides all the gases that living things need to survive
Earth's rotation causes the Coriolis Effect, This causes winds in the Northern Hemisphere to ____________.
Turn right (go counterclockwise)
The process in which clouds form
air rises and cools until condensation occurs on small particles. Condensation can be in the form of water droplets or ice crystals
Albedo's effect on global temperature
albedo is the reflectiveness of a surface, when reflective surface like snow caps and glaciers disappear, more heat is absorbed on Earth's surface instead of reflected into the atmosphere.