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Ch 15&16 Test Review
Question | Answer |
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This is the difference in a aneroid barometer and a mercury barometer | rain gauge |
thin, high feathery clouds made of ice crystals | cirrus clouds |
This is the difference in a aneroid barometer and a mercury barometer | mercury has liquid in it |
caused by differences in air pressure [density] | wind |
layer of the atmosphere where we live | troposhere |
temperature at which water vapor condenses | dew point |
condensation on solid surfaces | dew |
these make up the Earth's major wind belts | polar easterlies, trade winds and prevailing westerlies |
instrument used to measure wind direction | wind vane |
layer of the atomosphere with ozone | stratosphere |
local wind in the daytime | sea breeze |
these are the 3 major types of clouds | status and cirrus and cummulus |
cool global winds | polar easterlies |
3 O | Ozone |
The earth's atmoshere provides all of this needed so it is very important to living things | gases |
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 | decreases |
percent of oxygen in dry air | 21 percent |
local wind at night | land breeze |
layer where meteroids burn up | mesosphere |
a column of mercury will do this as air pressure increases | rise |
local wind which moves from a body of water to the land | sea breeze |
this thin layer of gases surrounds the earth | atmosphere |
since air has mass, the air in the atmosphere has this | density |
layer containing satellites | exosphere |
instrument used to measure wind speed | anemometer |
global areas of calm | doldrums and horse latitudes |
condition of earths atmosphere at a certain time and place | weather |
getting out of breath when climbing a mountain is caused by this | less oxygen per cubic square |
layer where the aurora borealis occurs | ionosphere |
if mass is less in avolume then this is also less | density |
form of oxygen with three oxygen atoms in each molecule | ozone |
intruments that are used to measure air pressure | barometer |
kinds of winds that blow over short distances | local winds |
layer where weather ballons fly | stratosphere |
winds just above the 30 degrees latitude | horse latitudes |
percent of nitrogen in dry air | 78 percent |
instrument used to measure relative humidity | psycrometer |
process by which gases hold heat in the atmosphere | green house effect |
coldest layer | mesosphere |
national weather service measures air pressure in these units | milli-bars |
main layers are classified according to this | temperature |
this acting on the roof of your house comes from air above and below the roof | pressure |
local winds which moves from land to sea | land breeze |
layer which gets warmer with altitude | stratosphere |
ozone absorbs this kind of electromagnetic radiation | ultra violet radiation |
fluffy white clouds | cummulus |
type of electromagnetic radiation slower and felt as heat | infrared radiation |
large flufffy clouf which often produce thunderstorms | cummulimbus |
frozen precipitation which is light and fluffy | snow |
energy soure for wind on the earth | sun |
happens to dry air when heated | less dense rises |
layered clouds which often bring rain | stratus |
clouds low to the surface | fog |
frozen rain | sleet |
compact barometer with no liquid | aneroid |
water vapor in which state of matter | gas |
density of will increase the altitude does this | decrease |
clouds formed from pollution | smog |
follows a disterbence in the clouds | thunderstorms |
winds are caused by | differences in air pressure |
forms when water vapor condenses on solid particles | clouds |
any form of water which fall to earths surface | precipitation |
winds above and below the equator | trade winds |
pressure does this as altitude increases | decreases |
winds that blow between the equator and the poles | global winds |
as an air mass rises up a mountainside the temperature does this | decrease |
distance above sea level | altitude |
a clothes dryer is an example of what methof of heat transfer | convection currents |