Question | Answer |
Eye | The very center of a hurricane |
Map | A representation of the earth or a part of the earth |
Hurricane | A massive system of rotating winds that forms over warm tropical waters |
Globe | A representation of the earth on a sphere |
Tornadoes | A violent windstorm that spriles around a rotating column of air and moves in a narrow path over land |
Typhoon | A hurrcain that forms north of the equator in the western pacific ocean |
Funnel Cloud | A rapidly rotating cloud can become visible as a funnel at the base of the thundercloud |
Cyclone | When a hurrcain forms over the Indian ocean off the coast of Austrialia
also a swirling center of low air pressure |
Weather | State of atmosphere at a partcular time and place |
Important elements of weather | Moisture,temp. wind speed, and atmospheric pressur |
Climate | Refers to weather pattrens |
Energy from the Sun | Solar energy |
Process of absorbing energy | Radiation |
How much radiation reaches earth | Half |
Same rate of absorbing and reflecting | No examples: soil rock and water |
Atmosphere protects | Harmful radation |
Everyone Is Making Sweet Tea | Exosphere Ionosphere Mesosphere Stratosphere Troposphere |
Troposphere | Weather and air we bearth and live in |
Stratosphere | Ozone layer and planes fly here |
Mesosphere | Middle of atmosphere , metor tails burn up |
Ionosphere | Northern light are made here and ions arehere |
Exosphere | Space satolights orbet here and exits earths atmosphere |
Invisibly force | Gravity |
Greenhouse gases | Water vapor and carbon dioxied |
Gases | Nitrogen78% oxygen 21% othergases1% |
Maritime tropical | Over ocean, warm, cold |
Maritime polar | Over oceans, cold, moist |
Contiental tropical | over land, warm, dry |
Contiental polar | over land, old, dry |
Air masses | a huge body of air that has similar temp. humidity, and air pressure at a given hight |
Tropical | air masses form in the tropics and have low pressure |
Maritime | air masses that form over oceans |
Polar | ari masses from 50 degrees north laitude and 50 degrees south laitude |
Front | an area where air masses meet and do not mix |
Contiental | air masses form over land and in the middle of continents |
Occlude | warm air masses that is cut off from th ground |
Anticyclones | high pressure center of dry air |