The Atmosphere
The layer that contains weather
What is the troposphere?
Where air pressure is highest globally
What are the poles?
How energy travels from the sun through space to the Earth
What is radiation?
An albedo of 1
What is a surface that reflects 100% of light?
A type of gas in the atmosphere that absorbs and reemits infrared light
What is a greenhouse gas?
The layer between the troposphere and the mesosphere
What is the stratosphere?
What happens to air that is warmed (e.g., at the equator)
What is becomes less dense and rises?
Where the sun's energy is the least intense
What are the poles?
How temperature changes with the addition of clouds
What is decreases?
A greenhouse gas that has increased concentration in the atmosphere due to burning fossil fuels
What is carbon dioxide? (CO2)
The layer with the least air density
What is the thermosphere?
What is convection?
Where the sun's energy is most intense
What is the equator?
The way sunlight interacts with clouds
What is reflecting?
A greenhouse gas that is produced by agriculture, including raising cattle
What is methane? (CH4)
The layer containing the ozone layer
What is the stratosphere?
How air masses always move
What is from areas of high pressure to areas of low pressure?
The direction breezes blow at coastlines at night
What is from the land to the ocean (land breeze)
The change in Earth's temperature due to a decrease in albedo
What is increasing?
How the temperature on the surface of the Earth changes as more absorbing layers & more greenhouse gases are added to the atmosphere
What is increasing?
The layer that decreases in temperature with increasing elevation - from -3 degrees C to -85 degrees C
What is the mesosphere?
The phenomenon where moving air curves as it passes over the surface of the moving Earth
What is the Coriolis effect?
The reason sea breezes occur during the day
What is air over land is heated and rises, and cooler air from the ocean moves in?
An albedo of zero
What is a surface that absorbs 100% of light?
The type of energy that is absorbed by greenhouse gases and warms the planet
What is infrared?