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atmosphere and winds
Question | Answer |
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This is used to measure the condensed water vapor that falls to the earth? | Rain gauge |
Thin, high, feathery clouds made of ice crystals? | Cirrus clouds |
This is the difference in a aneriod barometer an a mercury barometer? | aneriod contains no liquid and it is much smaller |
Caused by differences in air pressure(density)? | winds |
Layer of the atmosphere where we live? | Troposphere |
Temperature at which water vapor condenses? | Dew point |
Condensation on solid surface? | dew |
Cool air masses tend to be more or less dense? | More dense |
These make up the Earth's major wind belts? | trade winds, provailing westerlies, polar easterlies |
Instrument used to measure wind directions? | wind vane |
Layer of the atmosphere with ozone? | Stratosphere |
local wind in the daytime? | sea breeze |
These are the three major types of clouds? | cumulus, cirrus, stratus |
Cool global winds? | polar easterlies |
The earth's atmoshpere provides all of this needed so it is very important to living things? | oxygen, nitrogen, and arigon |
layer of the atmosphere with weather? | troposphere |
as you rise farther in the atmosphere, this is what happens to the air pressure? | decreases |
percentage of oxygen in dry air? | 21% |
local wind at night? | land breeze |
layer of the atmosphere where meteoroids burn? | mezosphere |
a column of mercury will do this as air pressure increases? | the mercury rises upward |
local wind which moves from a body of water to land? | sea breeze |
This is the thin layer of gases that surrounds the Earth? | the atmosphere |
Since air has mass, the air in the atmosphere has this? | density |
Layer of the atmosphere containing satellites? | exosphere |
Instrument used to measure wind speed? | anemometer |
Global areas of calm? | doldrums & horse latitudes |
condition of earth's atmosphere at a particular time and place? | weather |
Getting out of breath when climbing a mountain is caused by this? | the higher the altitude the thinner the air |
layer of the atmosphere where aurora borealis occurs? | ionosphere |
if the mass is less in a volume of air then this is also less? | density |
this is a form of oxygen with three oxygen atoms in each molecule? | ozone |
These instruments are used to measure air pressure? | barometer |
this kind of winds blow over short distances? | local winds |
layer of the atmosphere where weather balloons fly? | stratosphere |
winds just above the 30 degrees latitude? | prevailing westerlies |
percent of nitrogen in dry air? | 78% |
instrument used to measure relative humidity (wet bulb/dry bulb)? | psychrometer |
process by which gases hold heat in the atmosphere? | greenhouse effect |
coldest layer of the atmosphere? | mesosphere |
national weather service measures air pressure in these units? | millibars |
the main layers of the atmosphere are classified according to their changes in this? | temperature |
this acting on the roof of your house comes from air above and below the roof? | air pressure |
local wind which moves from the land to a body of water? | land breeze |
layer of the atmosphere which gets warmer with altitude? | stratosphere |
ozone absorbs his type of electromagnetic radiation? | utraviolet radiation |
fluffy white clouds? | cumulus |
type of electromagnetic radiation slower and felt as heat? | infrared radiation |
large fluffy cloud which often produces thunderstorms? | cumulonimbus |
frozen precipitation which is light and fluffy? | snow |
energy source for winds on earth? | the sun |
happens to dry air when it is heated? | warm air rises when cold air settles in |
layered clouds which often bring rain? | stratus |
clouds low to the surface on cool mornings? | fog |
frozen precipitation which is light and fluffy? | sleet |
compact barometer with no liquid? | aneriod barometer |
water vapor is water in this state of matter? | gases |
the density of air will increase the altitude does this? | decreases |
clouds formed by pollution? | smog |
follows a disturbance in the cloud? | thunder |
wind is caused by differences in this? | air density and pressure |
form when water vapor condenses on solid particles? | cloud |
any form of water which falls to Earth's surface? | precipitation |
winds above and below the equator? | trade winds |
O3 | ozone |
pressure does this as the altitude increases? | decreases |
winds that blow between the equator and the poles? | global winds |
as an air mass rises a mountainside the temperature does this? | decrease |
distance above sea level? | altitude |
a clothes dryer is an example of what method of heat transfer? | convection currents |