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Ch.15
Study Guide
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| List the examples of local winds. | Land & Sea Breeze |
| What are auroras and where are they found? | Lights found in the Ionoshpere |
| Our ozone layer absorbs witch type of harmful radiation from the sun? | UV Rays |
| How much oxygen and carbon dioxide is found in our air? | 0=21% CO2=Less then 1% |
| Witch global wind blows away from the piles to the west? | Polar Eastalies |
| What are the 2 most abundant gases found in the air? | Nitrogen & Oxygen |
| Describe air pressure. | The measure of force the amount of air molicuils are pressed down on a certain space |
| What happens to air pressure as latitude increases? | As latitude increases, air preasure decreases |
| Describe jet steams. | Nerrow Belts of high speed winds |
| What is the green house effect? | The Proces witch the gases in the atmoshpere that is aborbed |
| Explain the 3 ways the heat is tansferred. | Conduction=Direct Contact Covection=Engergy threw liquid and gas Radiation= EM Waves |
| Where do trade winds flow toward? | Equater |
| What does Coriolis Effect make the winds do? | Make Winds curve |
| Describe the doldrums. | Where Trade Winds meet at the Equater |
| What is the Ozone layer? Where is it found? | Stratoshpere |
| Describe the Thermosphere. | The uppest most layer of the Atmoshpere. |
| What is the most common atmosheric gas? | Nitrogen |
| What parts of the Earth cools off faster and heats up faster? what does the unequal heating create? | Land cool faster and heats faster, creates Winds |
| What is Smoge? | Air Pollution + Fog |
| Desribe the movement of the convection currents. | The reapeating force of coling heating |
| Witch instument measures air pressure? | Barometer |
| What is significan about the troposphere? | Weather happens there |
| What kind of ways have humans created air pollution | Buring fossile fuils |
| What is another name for the distance above sea level? | Elevation or Altitude |
| What are global winds? | Combination of Convection cells every 30* |
| What does the name of a wind tell you? | Where the Wind is coming from |
| How much of the sun's engergy actually reaches Earth? | 2 billianth |
| What prperty are the layers of the atmoshpere based on? | Temp. |
| Which calm area is located around 30 derees north and south latitude? | Horse latitudes |
| What is the atmoshpere? | Layer of Gasses souronding the Earth protecting us from the UV rays |
| List the 3 global winds and the 2 calm area? | Global Winds= Polar Easterlies, Westerlies & trade winds Calm=Horse Latidues & Dolrums |
| What is global warming? | Increase of Temp. thats not natrual |
| If are mas encreases what happens to density? | Air Mass increase, Density Increase |
| What type of winds blow over short distances? | Local Winds |
| How are all winds created? | Unequal heating of the Earths Surface |
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