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100
You see a group of symbols on a weather map. I is a circle with many symbols around it?
What is a station model
100
Earth's atmosphere is important to living things because it _______?
What is provides all the gasses that living things need to survive?
100
Cold air is more dense than warm air and causes air current to move.
What is convection?
200
Small lines at the end of a shaft that represents wind direction on a weather map indicate _____?
What is wind speed?
200
Earth's atmosphere traps energy from the sun, which _____?
What is allows water to exist as a liquid?
200
Condensation of water vapor onto a solid surface in the atmosphere_____.
What is cloud formation?
300
A cloud cover symbol that is 3/4 black and 1/4 white represents?
What is 70-80 percent cloud cover?
300
The process by which gasses hold heat in the atmosphere.
What is greenhouse effect?
300
Precence of particles and cooling of air are conditions for _____.
What is cloud formation?
400
Heat from the sun reaches you by_____.
What is radiation?
400
Any form of water that falls to the ground is called _____.
What is precipitation?
500
When you touch a hot spoon, heat is transterred from the spoon to your hand by _____.
What is conduction?
500
Most of the heating of the troposphere comes from _____.
What is convection?
500
When heated, Earth's surface radiates some of the energy back into the atmosphere in the form of _____.
What is infrared radiation?