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The Atmosphere
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100
The most abundant gas in the atmosphere
What is Nitrogen?
100
Heat transferred from the sidewalk to your toes is an example of this type of heat transfer
What is conduction?
100
Wind in the Northern Hemisphere curve in this direction due to the Coriolis Effect
What is to the right?
100
The measure of how far a place is from the equator
What are latitudes?
100
An ozone molecule has this many atoms
What is 3?
200
What is the most abundant liquid in the atmosphere?
What is water vapor?
200
In convection currents, cold air ______.
What is sinks?
200
The pressure belt found at 0 degrees latitude?
What are doldrums?
200
In this biome , some seeds need fire to break open their outer skin.
What is tropical savanna?
200
The coldest layer of the atmosphere
What is mesosphere?
300
This holds the atmosphere around the Earth.
What is gravity?
300
The type of air pressure found at the poles of the Earth
What is high?
300
Most of the USA is in which prevailing wind belt?
What is westerlies?
300
In this biome,vegetation includes 3–5 m tall grasses
What is tropical savanna?
300
Water that flows across land and collects in rivers, streams, and the ocean is called
What is runoff?
400
In these atmospheric layers temperature decreases as altitude increases.
What are troposphere and mesosphere?
400
Cold air is more dense or less dense than warm air?
What is more dense? (IT SINKS!!!!)
400
winds that blow toward the poles between 30
What are westerlies?
400
In the winter, in this biome, it has almost 24 hours of night
What is the tundra?
400
When air cools to a temperature at which it is completely saturated with water we call this its
What is dew point?
500
Most of the mass of the Earth's atmosphere is found in this layer of the atmosphere
What is troposphere?
500
This produces pressure belts on the Earth
What is uneven heating of the Earth?
500
narrow belts of high-speed, high-altitude winds that do not follow regular paths
What are jet streams?
500
This type of tree loses its vegetation annually.
What is deciduous?
500
cloud that produces thunderstorms
What is cumulonimbus?