Chapter 7 Test 7th and 8th
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| Atmosphere | A blanket of gases that surrounds our planet to protect and support life in many ways.
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| Water Vapor | The gaseous form of water.
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| Ozone | A relatively scare type of oxygen molecule in which 3 oxygen atoms or bonded. (O3)
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| Stratosphere | The layer I immediately above the tropopause, stretches from the tropopause to an altitude of about 31 mi.
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| Mesosphere | The layer immediately above the stratopause, the begins to drop more altitude increases, extends 53 mi, least understood layer.
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| Thermosphere | Layer above the mesosphere extends from 53 mi to 300 mi.
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| Cosmic Rays | Extremely powerful radiation that comes from deep space.
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| Magnetic Field | The region in which the magnet effects other objects.
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| Van Allen Radiation Belt | Region where solar wind particles are trapped in a region that looks like a belt or doughnut that is encircling the earths equator.
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| Albedo | The decimal equivalent of solar radiation reflected by an object.
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| Energy Budget | Amount of energy available to heat earths land, water, and air.
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| Convection Current | Currents set into motion by moving currents of hot air or of other fluids.
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| Up Drafts and Down Drafts | Vertical movements of air.
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| Adiabatic Cooling | Occurs because molecules spread out, resulting with fewer collisions.
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| Adiabatic Heating | A gas being compressed the temperature of gas rises as the gas is compressed with no heat lost.
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| Hadley Cell | The convection cell that exists between the equator and latitude 30*
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| Ferrel Cell | High pressure warm air at latitude 30* and 60*it creates a low pressure region creating winds that come from latitude 30* and 60*
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| Polar Cell | When newly warmed air rises to flow back to the poles.
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| Cyclone | Circulating spiral around a low in northern hemisphere. (Rotates counter clockwise).
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| Anticyclone | A wind system around a high in northern hemisphere. (Rotates clockwise).
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| Doldrums | A belt where there are often calms or light breezes.
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| Trade Winds | The surface winds that blow from the high pressure regions of the horse latitudes towards the equator.
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| Polar Easterlies | The high pressure regions created by the constantly sinking air at the poles cause winds to blow away from the poles towards the lower latitudes.
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| Prevailing Westerlies | Blows towards the poles, they "outrun" the earths surface so that they come out of the southwest and northwest.
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| Rossby Waves | Upper troposphere waves.
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| Sea Breeze | Cooler air from over the water blows inland.
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| Fall Wind | Occurs when dense, cold air flows from higher to lower elevations due to gravity's pull.
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| Chinook | Foehns on the east side of the Rocky Mountain.
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| Santa Ana | A very dry and dusty wind that blows in Southern California.
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| Nitrogen | The Most abundant gas in the homosphere.
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| Troposphere | The atmosphere's "weather layer".
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| 3 Types of UV Radiation | UVA, UVB, UVC
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| Mesopause | The atmosphere's coldest point.
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| Exosphere | The atmosphere's outermost layer.
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| PSI at Sea Level | 14.7 atmospheric pounds per square inch.
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| Water Vapor | Most important green house gas.
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| Winds | Horizontal movements of air.
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| Jet Streams | Strong, narrow winds in the upper tropopause.
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| Foehns | The general name for a dry wind that travels down a slope.
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| Why do mountains stay snow capped over the summer ? | Because as you go higher the weather gets colder preserving the snow.
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| Land Breeze | A gentle wind that blows from land to sea.
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| 4 Things That Effect Insolation | Cloudy Weather by as much as 85%, length of daytime, the angle of the suns rays, and earths distance from the sun.
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