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Heat Transfer
Water and Global Patterns
Air Pressure
Winds
Relative Humidity
100
The part of the Earth System that contains all of Earth's water.
What is the hydrosphere
100
The process in which water enters the atmosphere.
What is evaporation?
100
Why does air have pressure?
It has mass.
100
Local winds occur because of
What is unequal heating within a small area?
100
The measure of the amount of water vapor in the air.
What is humidity?
200
The total energy of motion in the particles of a substance.
What is thermal energy?
200
The climate zones lying between 23.5 and 66.5 degrees north and south latidude.
What are the temperate zones?
200
An aneriod baromater is different than from a mercury barometer because....
It does not contain a liquid.
200
How do we measure wind speed?
What is an anemometer?
200
Air with a relative humidity of 100% is said to be......
What is saturated?
300
Heat transfer between two substances that are in direct contact.
What is conduction?
300
A process by which water is given off through the leaves of plants as water vapor.
What is transpiration?
300
As you rise upwards in the atmosphere, air pressure....
What is decreases?
300
Cool air flows under
What is warm air?
300
Measures relative humidity.
What is psychrometer?
400
What air temperature is measured with.
What is a thermometer?
400
Cool air can hold more/less water vapor than warm air?
What is less?
400
The amount of mass in a given volume.
What is density?
400
Cool air tends to be more...... than warm air.
What is dense?
400
The precentage of water vapor in the air.
What is relative humidity?
500
Heat is transferred mostly by __________________ within the troposphere.
What are convection currents?
500
Areas near the equator experience more/lesss condensation and precipitation than areas near the poles.
What is more?
500
Two kinds of barometers that measure air pressure.
What are the aneriod barometer and mercury barometer?
500
The movement of air parallel to Earth's Surface.
What is wind?
500
The two types of bulbs on a psychrometer.
What are wet and dry?