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15-16 test review Sc
atmosphere and winds
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| This is used to measure the condensed water vapor that falls to the Earth. | Rain gauge |
| Thin,High,Feathery clouds made of ice crystals. | Cirrus |
| This is the difference in an aneriod barometer and a mercury barometer. | A mercury barometer has a liquid and a aneriod barometer has no liquid and is more portbable and campact |
| Caused by differences in air pressure (density) | Wind |
| Layer of the atmosphere where we live | trososphere |
| Tempeture at which water vapor condenses | dew-point |
| Condensation on solid surfaces | Dew |
| These make up the earth's makor wind belts | Global Winds |
| Instrument used to measure wind direction | wind-vane |
| layer of the atmosphere with ozone | stratosphere |
| Local wind in the daytime | sea-breeze |
| these are the three major types of clouds | Cirrus cumulus stratus |
| Cool global winds | polar easterlies |
| The Earth's atmosphere provides all of this needed so is very important to living things | Gases |
| Layer of the atmosphere with weather | trososphere |
| 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 oxegen in Dry air | 21% |
| Local wind at night | Land breeze |
| layer of the atmosphere where meteoroids burn | Mesosphere |
| a column of mercury will do this as air pressure increases | Rise |
| local wind which moves from a body of water to land | sea-breeze |
| 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 atmoshere containing satellites | Exosphere |
| Layer of the atmosphere where 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 oxegen with three oxegen atoms in each molecule | Ozone |
| These instruments are used to measure air pressure | Barometer |
| This kind od winds blow over short distances | Local Winds |
| Layer of the atmosphere where weather balloons fly | Stratosphere |
| Winds just above the 30 degrees latitude | Westerlies |
| National Weather service measures air pressure in these units | millibars |
| Ozone absorbs this type of electromagnetic radiation | Ultraviolet radiation |
| Energy source for winds on earth | Sun |
| Compact barometer with no liquid | Aneriod barometer |
| Winds are caused by differneces in this | Air pressure |
| Pressure does this as the altitude increases | decreases |
| percent of Nitrogen in dry air | 78% |
| The main layers of the atmosphere are classified according to their changes in this | Tempeture |
| Fluffy white clouds | Cumulus |
| Happens to dry air when it is heated | It rises |
| water vapor is water in this state of matter | Gas |
| Form when water vapor condenses on solid particles | clouds |
| Winds that blow between the equator and the poles | Trade winds |
| Instrument used to measure realative humitity (wet bulb/dry bulb) | Pschrometer |
| this acting in the roof of your house comes from the air above and below the roof | Air pressure |
| Type of electromagnetic radiation slower and felt as heat | Infraded Radiation |
| Layered clouds which often bring rain | stratus |
| The density of air will increase the altitude does this | decreases |
| Any form of water which falls to earth's surface | precipitatation |
| as an ait mass rises up a mountainside the tempeture does this | decreases |
| process by which gases hold heat in the atmosphere | greenhouse effect |
| Local wind which moves from the land to a body of water | land breeeze |
| Large fluffy cloud which often produces thunderstorms | cumulusnimbus |
| Clouds low to the surface on cool mornings | Fog |
| Clouds formed by pollution | Smog |
| Winds above and below the the equator | trade winds |
| Distance above sea level | altitude |
| Coldest layer of the atmosphere | mesophere |
| Layer of the atmosphere which gets warmer with altitude | stratosphere |
| frozen precipitation is light light and fluffy | snow |
| frozen rain i also called this | Sleet |
| follows a disturbance in the clouds | Thunderclouds |
| o3 | Ozone |
| a clothes dryer is an example of what method of heat transfer | Convention |
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