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16 Cards in this Set
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Name the Six Basic Elements of Weather
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Air Temp, Realative humidity, Cloud cover, precipitation, barometric prssure, Wind
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What are the atmospheres "Fixed Components"?
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Inert Nitrogen(78%)
Oxygen (21%) Carbon Dioxide (0.035%) |
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What are the atmospheres variable components?
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Water vapor (0-4%)
Dust (condensation nuclei) Ozone |
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Name the parts of the atmosphere.
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Troposhere, stratoshere, mesoshere , thermoshere
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Where does weather occur?
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Troposhere
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Where is the ozone layer located?
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stratoshere
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What casues temperature increast
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increase in stratoshere of temperture vs. altitued (ozone absorbs ultra-violet enegy
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Weather
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The state of the atmoshere at a particular place and time
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Climate
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The weather of a given region over a long period of time
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The seasons
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Cause by suns angle with respect to the equator
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Two main season factors
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Lenght of day
Angle of illumination Low=less High=more |
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What DRIVES weather
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Heat , Earths rotation
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Name the Temperature Controls
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Latitude (sun angle), land and water, altitude, geographic position, albedo and cloud cover
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Dew point
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Temperature at which vapor in atmosphere becomes a liquid
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Forcing air Aloft
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Thermal Lifting , orographic lifting , fontal wedging convergence
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Name Basic cloud types
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Cirrus (thin wispy igh clouds)
Stratus(flad layerd clouds) Cumulus(fleecy looking cluds Nimbus (any cloud deliver rain) |
