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Sunlight & Atmosphere
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Geography
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Natural Disasters
100
Energy that reaches Earth's surface from the sun
What is solar radiation?
100
Winds that blow in one direction
What are prevailing winds?
100
The distance from a point on the ground to a point in the atmosphere
What is altitude?
100
The type of forecasting used by meteorologists
What is probability forecasting?
100
This determines how hurricanes and tornadoes are classified
What is wind speed?
200
This latitude receives direct sunlight year round
What is tropical latitude?
200
Winds that blow over the ocean carry more of this than winds that blow over land
What is moisture?
200
Sunlight reflects off of these
What are glaciers?
200
The boundary between two air masses
What is a front?
200
A catastrophic event that occurs as the result of natural processes
What is a natural disaster?
300
A type of molecule (gas) that retains heat in atmosphere
What is a greenhouse gas?
300
Oceans help transfer these two things around the Earth
What are heat and moisture?
300
The direction that winds blow in a hill and valley during the night
What is into the valley?
300
Type of air mass that carries less moisture and is more dense
What is cold air or cold front?
300
Temperature of ocean water to form a hurricane
What is 85 degrees?
400
This latitude is cold in the winter and warm in the summer
What is temperature latitude?
400
Differences in this create wind
What is density?
400
This describes how much energy is required to increase the temperature of a substance
What is heat capacity?
400
This type of front brings storms followed by cooler temperatures
What is a cold front?
400
The type of natural disaster that has caused the most deaths and destruction
What are floods?
500
An increase in Earth's temperature due to the burning of fossil fuels
What is global warming?
500
This warms up slower than land
What is the ocean?
500
The climate on each side of a mountain
What is warm & wet on one side and cool and dry on the opposite side?
500
Type of pressure system associated with clear, sunny skies, light winds, and cooler temperatures
What is high pressure?
500
Tornado Alley is a common place for tornadoes because of this
What is cool air from the north and warm air from the south?