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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Almost all of the water vapor in the atmosphere is in the _____________________ | trophosphere |
| Clouds form when water vapor in the air condenses as the air is _________________ | heated |
| CFCs, chemicals that are used as refrigerants and as propellants in spray cans, are partly to blame for the reduction of stratospheric ______________________ | ozone |
| Winds in the Northern Hemisphere curve clockwise because of the ________________ effect | Coriolis |
| ___________________and ___________________ clouds both produce precipitation | Cumulonimbus and nimbostratus |
| When a moving warm air mass encounters a mountain range, the air mass __________ and __________ | rises; cools |
| What occurs when cool air gets trapped under a layer of warm air? | temperature inversion |
| What conditions are necessary for the formation of a tornado? | cold, dry air meets warm, moist air |
| A _________________ barometer indicates air pressure by the height of a column of mercury | mercury |
| An _______________ barometer operates on the basis of the expansion and contraction of air in a vacuum chamber and less accurate than a mercury barometer | aneroid |
| The lowest layer of the atmosphere, in which temperature drops at a constant rate as altitude increases | troposphere |
| Almost all weather occurs in the _____________________ | troposhere |
| The troposhere gets ____________ with increasing altitude | cooler |
| the layer of the atmosphere that lies between the troposhere and the mesophere and in which temperature increases as altitude increases; | stratosphere |
| This layer contains the ozone layer | stratosphere |
| What occurs when cool air becomes trapped beneath warm air? | Temperature Inversion |
| The coldest layer of the atmosphere, between the stratosphere and the thermosphere, in which temperature decreases as altitude decreases | mesophere |
| The uppermost layer of the atmosphere, in which temperature increases as altitude increases | thermosphere |
| The warming of the surface and lower atmosphere of Earth that occurs when carbon dioxide, water vapor, and other gases in the air absorb and reradiate infrared radiation | greenhouse effect |
| ______________ produce carbon dioxide necessary for photosynthesis | animals |
| What is one manmade chemical that depletes the ozone layer? | CFC's (refrigerants and spray cans) |
| Why is the ozone layer in the stratosphere beneficial to living things? | The single atoms of oxygen bond with O2 forming O3 which absorbs the sun's damaging ultraviolet light |
| The greenhouse effect occurs when carbon dioxide, water vapor, and other gases absorb and _________________ infrared radiation | reradiate |
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