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Ch15&16 Test Review
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 |
This is the difference in an aneroid barometer and a mercury barometer | a mercury barometer has liquid |
Caused by differences in air pressure | wind |
layer of the atmosphere where we live | troposphere |
Temperature at which water vapor condenses | dew point |
Condensation on solid surfaces | dew |
These make up the Earth's major wind belts | prevailing westerlies, polar easterlies, trade winds |
Instrument used to measure wind directions | weather vane |
layer of the atmosphere with ozone | stratosphere |
local wind in the daytime | seabreeze |
These are the 3 major types of clouds | stratus, cirrus, cumulus |
Cool global winds | trade winds |
The Earth's atmosphere provides all of this needed so it is very important to living things | oxygen and other gases |
Layer of the atmosphere with weather | troposphere |
Cool air masses tend to be more or less dense | more dense |
As you rise farther in the atmosphere, this is what happens to the air pressure | it rises |
Percent of Oxygen in Dry Air | 21% |
Local wind at night | land breezes |
Layer of the atmosphere where meteoriods burn | mesosphere |
A column of mercury will do this as air pressure increases | rise/increase |
Local Wind which moves from a body of water to land | Sea breeze |
This is the thin layer of gases that surrounds the Earth | 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 and 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 | lack of oxygen per breath |
Layer of the atmosphere where aurora borealis occur | ionosphere |
If the mass id 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 | Horse Latitutes |
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 | Green house effect |
Coldest layer of the atmosphere | exosphere |
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 | |
Local wind which moves from the land to a body of water | Land Breeze |
Layer of the atmonsphere which gets warmer with altitude | |
Ozone absorbs this type of electromagnetic 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 Earth's winds | sun |
Happens to dry air when it is heated | becomes less dense and rises |
Layered clouds which often bring rain | stratus |
Clouds low to the surface on cool mornings | fog |
Frozen rain is also called this | Sleet |
Compact barometer with no liquid | aneroid |
Water vapor is water in this state of matter | gas |
The density of air will increase the altitude does this | decreases |
Clouds formed by pollution | Smog |
Follows a disturbance in the clouds | precipitation |
Winds are caused by differences in this | air pressure |
Form when water vapor condenses on solid particles | dew |
Any form of water which falls to the Earth's surface | Precipitation |
Winds above and below the equator | doldrums |
O3 | Ozone |
Pressure does this as the altitude increases | Rises |
Winds that blow between the equator and the poles | |
As an air mass rises up a mountainside the temperature does this | drops |
Distance above sea level | elavation |
A clothes dryer is an example of what method of heat transfer | radiation |