Atmosphere/Air Pressure
Approximately 78% of our atmosphere is this gas, making it the most abundant gas in our atmosphere.
What is nitrogen?
This type of heat transfer is responsible for weather.
What is convection?
This is the change of a liquid to a gas.
What is evaporation?
What is wind?
These form over warm, tropical water and can be up to several hundred miles wide.
What is a hurricane?
This instrument is used to measure air pressure.
What is a barometer?
This is the transfer of energy by electromagnetic waves.
What is radiation?
This is the energy source for the water cycle and weather.
What is the sun?
This type of cloud is most likely to produce thunderstorms.
What is cumulonimbus?
The most severe type of these can have winds up to 300 mph.
What is a tornado?
a.) High-Pressure means (more/less) water in the air
b.) Low-Pressure means (more/less) water in the air
What is less and more?
This is the transfer of energy by movement of particles.
What is convection?
The majority of precipitation occurs here.
What are the oceans?
These are caused by the unequal heating of the Earth's surfaces within a small area.
What are local winds?
These are pollutants that are put directly into the air by human or natural activity.
What are primary pollutants?
What is pressure gradient?
This is the transfer of energy by contact of particles.
What is conduction?
The biggest interaction in the water cycle takes place between the _____ and the _______.
What are the sun and ocean?
In the Northern Hemisphere, this is the direction a low-pressure system turns.
What is counter-clockwise?
This forms when sunlight reacts with vehicle exhaust and air.
What is ozone?
The layers of the Earth's atmosphere in order starting from the layer closest to Earth.
What are troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere, and exosphere?
This is energy created when the kinetic and potential energy of an object in motion is combined.
What is thermal energy?
The steps of the water cycle starting with evaporation/transpiration.
What are evaporation/transpiration, condensation, precipitation, run-off, collection, and ground water.
In a sea breeze the air over the land becomes ___________ and __________ air from the ocean blows toward the _______.
What are warmer, cooler, and land?
Examples include ozone, haze and smog.
What are non-point source pollutants?