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What's Above
Misc. Weather
Moving air masses
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The air that surrounds our planet.
What is the atmosphere?
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Gravity causes this to decrease with altitude.
What is atmospheric pressure.
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The two types of wind.
What is local and global?
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These are high, thin wispy clouds.
What are cirrus clouds?
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Name three types of precipitation.
What is a rain, snow, sleet, hail, etc.
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The air particles pressing down on a surface.
What is air pressure?
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The layer of atmosphere where most of the bad weather occurs.
What is the troposphere?
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When two air masses meet, this forms with the base of a cumulonimbus cloud.
What is a tornado?
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These high towering clouds signal a summer thunderstorm
What are cumulonimbus clouds?
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When clouds are low to the ground, what do we call them?
What is fog?
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The layer of atmosphere where most of the weather occurs.
What is the troposphere?
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The hottest layer of the atmosphere
What is the thermosphere?
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Air moves from a region of ____ pressure to ____ pressure.
What is an air high to low?
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These clouds form close to the earth and look like a roof of solid, gray clouds.
What stratus clouds?
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What is the ratio of the water vapor actually in the air to the maximum water vapor the air can hold at that temperature.
What is a relative humidity?
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The layer above the troposphere where planes fly long distances.
What is the stratosphere?
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The six elements are wind, precipitation, temperature, cloudiness, humidity, and atmospheric pressure.
What is the weather or climate?
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When a cold air mass and a warm air mass meet, which mass is lighter and gets pushed upward?
What is warm air?
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These are the three types of climate.
What are polar, temperate, and tropical?
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The temperature at which the air becomes saturated?
What is dew point?
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The layer where the ozone is found.
What is the stratosphere?
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This causes the atmosphere to heat up much faster then average.
What is the greenhouse effect?
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The name of the climate zone located near the equator.
What is the tropical zone?
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One unit of measure for atmospheric pressure.
What is 1 atm, pascals, bars, pounds per square inch, torr, mm Hg, in Hg.
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What are two green house gasses?
What is CO2, methane, water vapor, nitrous oxide, CFC's, ozone.