Global Winds
The phenomena known for making the shape of winds curved as air is left behind by the land beneath it.
What is the Coriolis effect?
The three properties of the atmosphere
What are temperature, pressure, and humidity?
The outermost layer of the atmosphere
What is the Exosphere?
Cold, dense air that displaces warm air.
What are cold fronts?
The movement created by cold air rushing in to fill the gap that warm air leaves behind when it rises
What is wind?
Winds that blow from about 30º latitude towards the equator.
What are trade winds?
How much water is in the air relative to the amount of water the air can hold at that temperature.
What is relative humidity?
The layer where space shuttles orbit and the Aurora Borealis is viewed
What is the thermosphere?
Fronts that occur between two modified air masses that have small temperature and pressure gradients between them
What is a stationary front?
The transfer of thermal energy by the movement of heated material from one place to another
What is convection?
A band of high speed wind that blows high in the atmosphere.
What is a jet stream?
The chemical that makes up 78% of the atmosphere
What is nitrogen?
The layer of the atmosphere where meteors are seen and burn up
What is the mesosphere?
Cold air masses that move so rapidly that they take over warm fronts and force warm air upwards.
What is an occluded front?
Transfer of heat energy by materials making contact.
What is conduction?
Winds that blow from the poles to about 60º latitude
What are polar easterlies?
The temperature to which air must be cooled at constant pressure to reach saturation
What is dew point?
The layer where the ozone is located
What is the stratosphere?
Cold air displaced along warm air
What is a warm front?
The phenomenon of a substance not changing temperature during a phase change.
What is latent heat?
The area at 30º where westerlies meet the trade winds.
What are horse latitudes?
About 21% of the atmosphere is made up of this
What is oxygen?
The layer where weather occurs
What is the troposphere?
A collision of two air masses and a narrow region between two air masses of different densities.
What is a front?
The amount of water vapor in the atmosphere at a given location on Earth’s surface.
What is humidity?