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15 Cards in this Set
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4 main layers of the atmosphere
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Troposphere - Stratosphere -
Mesosphere - Thermosphere |
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Condution
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The tranfer of thermal energy by the circulation or movement of a gas or liquid
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Conduction
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the transfer if energy as heat through a material
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Radiation
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the transfer of energy as electromagnetic waves
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air density- explain high and low
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High- warmer, high percent of gase in the air...Low- comtain less gases
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Air pressure
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the measure of the forse with which air molecules push in a surface
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Polar Easterlies
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prevailing winds that blow east to west between 60* and 90* latitube bothin the hemisphere
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prevailing westerlies
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wind that blow from west to east between 30* and 60* laitude in both hemispheres
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trade winds
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prevailing winds the blow northeast from 30* north to to the equater
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percent of gas
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70% of gases
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0zone
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protechs us of from UV rays
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land breeze
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air over the land is warmer
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sea bereeze
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land over the sea is cooler
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global warming
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the warming of the earth
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green house efect
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the warming of the surfacr and lower atmosphere
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