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15/16 Test Review
Atmosphere & Winds
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A form of energy that can travel through space | Electromagnetic Waves |
| Wavelengths are shorter than violet light | Ultraviolet Radiation |
| Direct transfer of energy by electromagnetic waves | Radiation |
| Reflection of light in all directions | Scattering |
| Form of energy with wavelengths that are longer than red light | Infrared Radiation |
| The process by which gases hold heat in the air | Greenhouse Effect |
| The horizontal movement from an area of high air pressure to an area of lower pressure | Wind |
| The way Earth's rotation makes winds curve | Coriolis Effect |
| What measures wind speed | Anemometer |
| The process by which gases hold heat in the air | Greenhouse Effect |
| The horizontal movement from an area of high air pressure to an area of lower pressure | Wind Vane |
| The way Earth's rotation makes winds curve | Coriolis Effect |
| What measures wind speed | Anemometer |
| The distance from the Equater, measured in degrees | Latitude |
| Th increased cooling that a wind can cause | Wind - Chill Factor |
| Bands of high speed winds that are 10 kilometers from Earth's surface and are 200 to 400 kilometers per hour fast | Jet Stream |
| Winds that blow over short distances | Local Winds |
| A wind that blows from an ocean or lake onto land | Sea Breeze |
| The flow of ir from land to a body of water | Land Breeze |
| Sea and land breezes over a large region that changes direction with the season | Monsoon |
| winds that blow steadily from specific directions over long distances | Global Winds |
| The process by which water molecules in liquid water escape into the air as water vapor | Evaparation |
| The measure of the amount of water vapor in the air | Humidity |
| The percentage of water vapor in the air compared to the maximum amount the air can hold | Relative Humidity |
| Has two thermometers, a wet and dry bulb thermometer | Psychrometer |
| The process by which molecules of water vapor in the air become liquid water | Condensation |
| The temperature at which condensation begins | Dew Point |
| Clouds that look like fluffly, rounded piles of cotton that are 2 kilometers above ground and extends up to 18 kilometers | Culmulus (heep or mass) |
| Clouds that form in flat layers; covers most of the sky; and drizzling, raining, and snowing can occur here | Stratus (spread out) |
| Wispy, feathery clouds that are above 6 kilometers, temperatures are low, and are made of mostly ice crystals | Cirrus |
| Ice that has been deposited directly from the air onto a cold surface | Frost |
| Thunderstorms occur in this cloud and because of that are called thunderheads | Cumulonimubus |
| Clouds that form at or near the ground | Fog |
| This is used to measure the condensed water vapor that falls to the Earth | Rain Gauge |
| This is the difference in an aneroid and mercury barometer | Mercury Barameter - Liquid Aneroid Barometer - Metal |
| Layer of the atmosphere which we live in | Troposphere |
| Conensation on solid surfaces | Dew |
| Layer of the atmoshere with ozone | Stratospere |
| These are the three main types of clouds | Cumulus, Cirrus, & Stratus |
| Cool global winds | Polar Easterlies |
| The Earth's atmoshere provides all of this needed so it is very important to living things | Gases |
| Layer of the atmoshere with weather | Troposhere |
| Cool air masses tend to be more or less dense | More |
| As you rise farther in the atmoshere, this is what happens to air pressure | Decreases |
| Percent of oxygen in dry air | 21% |
| Layer of the atmoshere where asteroids burn up | Mesosphere |
| A column of mercury will do this as air pressure increases | Rise |
| 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 |
| Global areas that are calm | Doldrums & Horse Latitudes |
| Condition of Earth's atmosphere at a particualar time and place | Weather |
| Getting out of breath when climbing a mountain is caused by this | Thinner Air |
| Layer of the atmosphere where the aurora borealis occurs | Ionosphere |
| If the mass is 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 |
| This intstruments used to measure air pressure | Barometer |
| Layer of the atmosphere where weather balloons fly | Stratusphere |
| Winds just above 30 degrees latitude | Prevailing Westerlies |
| Percent of Nitrogen in dry air | 78% |
| Coldest layer of the atmosphere | Mesosphere |
| 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 | Air Pressure |
| Layer of the atmosphere which gets warmer with altitude | Stratosphere |
| Frozen Precipitaion which is light and fluffy | Snow |
| Energy sorce for winds on Earth | Sun |
| Happens to dry air when it is heated | Rises |
| Frozen Rain is also called this | Sleet |
| Compact Barameter with no liquid | Aneroid Barameter |
| Water vapor is water in this state of matter | Gas |
| The density of air will increase while the altitude does this | Decrease |
| Clouds formed by pollution | Smog |
| Follows a disturbance in the clouds | Thunder |
| Winds are caused in differences in this | Density |
| Form when water vapor condenses on solid particles | Clouds |
| Any form of water which falls to Earth's surface | Precipitation |
| Winds above and below the equater | Trade Winds |
| O3 | Ozone |
| Pressure does this as the altitude increases | Decreases |
| Winds that blow between the equater and the poles | Global Winds |
| As air mass rises up a mountainside the temperature does this | Cools or Decreases |
| Distance above sea level | Altitude |
| A clothes dryer is an example of what method of heat transfer | Convection |
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