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Ch.15
Study Guide
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is smog? | It when a automobile exhausts and ozone layer react with sunlight. |
| what type of winds blow over short distance? | local winds |
| what is the most common atmospheric. | nitrogen |
| describe air pressure. | weight of air above you |
| describe the Thermosphere. | is the hottest layer in the atmosphere |
| what does the Coriolis effects make the wind do? | curves |
| list the examples of local wind. | Lnad breeze and sea breeze |
| what are auroras and where and they form? | northern lights in the thermosphere |
| Our ozone layer absorbs which type of harmful radiation from the sun? | ultra violet light |
| how much oxygen and carbon dioxide is found in our air | 21% oxygen 78% nitrogen 1% other |
| what is the greenhouse effect? | the ozone layer and automobile exhaust mixed cause green house effect |
| what is the ozone layer? where is it found? | protects us from UV rays found at the stratosphere. |
| what happens to air pressure as altitude increase? | air pressure decrease |
| what is significant about the troposphere? | the atmosphere layer is what we live in. |
| explain the 3 ways of heat is transferred. | conduction direct heat radiation indirect heat convection cold air sink warm air rises |
| which global wind blows away from the poles to the west? | Polar easterlies |
| What are the 2 most abundant gases found in the air? | Nitrgen and oxygen |
| descibe jet stream. | narrow belts high speed winds that the blow in the upper trosphere and lower startosphere |
| Where do trade winds flow toward? | flow towards the equator |
| descibe the doldrums. | This is where trade winds meets: on the equator, very light wind- dull |
| What part of the earth cools offf fast and heats up faster? | land cools and heats faster |
| What does this uequal heating create? | Creates wind |
| descibe the movement of convection currents. | heat source cold sink dense air pushes warm light less dense air-continues in a cycle. |
| Which instrument measures air pressure? | barometer |
| what kind of ways havehumans creted air pollution? | Burning fossil fuels exhaust chemicals |
| What is another name for the distance above sea level? | Altititude or elevation |
| What are global winds? | comb. of convection cells at every 30 degees latiude wind that blow arcross long dist. |
| What does the name of the wind tell you | Winds tell where it coming from |
| How much of sun's energyactuallty reaches the earth? | 2 billionth |
| What property are the layers of the atmosphere based on? | temp. |
| Whichcalm area is located around 30 dergees north and south latitude? | Hores latutide |
| what is the atmosphere? | Layer of gases around earth, protect us from UV rays and space objects |
| list the 3 global winds and clam area | winds-polar easterlies, westerlies, trade winds clam-doldrums horse latitude |
| what is global warming? | the increase in average temp. on earth. |
| If air mass increases what happens to density | as air mass increase the density decrease |
| how are all winds created? | unequal heating of the earth's surface |
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