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Energy in the Atmosphere
Heat Transfer
Winds
Water in the Atmosphere
Precipitation
100
This type of electromagnetic radiation causes sunburns and skin cancer.
What is ultraviolet radiation
100
Name one type of heat transfer.
What is radiation, convection or conduction.
100
What are winds caused by?
What is differences in air pressure.
100
Describe evaporation or condensation.
What is a liquid turning to a gas (evaporation) or a gas turning to a liquid (condensation).
100
What is the most common type of precipitation?
What is rain.
200
This type of visible light has the shortest wavelength.
What is blue/violet light.
200
Name the freezing and boiling points on the Celsius scale.
What is 100˚C boiling and 0˚C freezing.
200
Why are there differences in air pressure?
What is due to the unequal heating of the atmosphere.
200
What two things are required for clouds to form?
What is cooling of the air and the presence of particles.
200
Explain how sleet forms.
What is when rain falls through a layer of air below 0˚C.
300
Name one thing that happens to sunlight when it enters the atmosphere.
What is absorbed by atmosphere or ground or reflected by clouds or ground.
300
Give an example of convection, conduction or radiation.
What is sunlight (radiation), water heating in a pot (convection), or burning yourself on a metal pan handle (conduction).
300
What are winds described by?
What is their speed and direction.
300
Which type of cloud is called the "fair weather" cloud?
What is a cumulus cloud.
300
Describe how snow forms.
What is when water droplets in clouds fall below 0˚C.
400
Describe how the atmosphere keeps us warm.
What is through the greenhouse effect, which holds in heat in the ozone layer.
400
Describe how thermometers work.
What is when the air is hot, it expands and rises in the thermometer. When air is cold, it contracts and falls in the thermometer.
400
Describe how global convection currents work.
What is warm air rises at the equator and sinks at the horse latitudes/poles.
400
What type of weather do cirrus clouds bring?
What is a change in weather or a warm front.
400
Describe what cloud seeding is.
What is a way to modify precipitation.
500
Explain why the sky is blue.
What is because the wavelength of blue light is scattered as it enters the atmosphere.
500
Describe how the troposphere is heated.
What is through the process of convection, in which the air above the ground is heated and rises up, while cooler air sinks to the ground.
500
Describe how a sea breeze OR land breeze works.
What is warm air rises over the sea/land and denser cold air sinks over the land/sea and replaces the rising warm air.
500
Explain why dew forms in the morning.
What is the air cools to the dew point overnight, and condenses to form water on the cool grass.
500
What must happen for precipitation to occur?
What is cloud droplets must grow heavy enough to fall through the air.