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As you move upward from sea level air pressure... |
Decreases |
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The source of all energy in our atmosphere... |
The sun. Or solar energy |
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This atmospheric layer blends with outer space. |
Exosphere |
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The layer of the atmosphere where weather occurs... |
Troposphere |
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The layer with the highest concentration of ozone |
Stratosphere |
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The process of water vapor changing to a liquid... |
Condensation |
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Due to the amount of gravitational force air pressure is greatest at... |
Sea level |
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Rain, sleet, snow, and hail are forms of... |
Precipitation |
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A large body of air that has the same properties as the surface over which it develops. |
Air mass |
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Low, layered, grey clouds that produce light precipitation. |
Stratus clouds |
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High, thin, white feathery clouds. |
Cirrus clouds |
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Dew, clouds, frost are forms of |
Condensation |
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Weather is caused by the interaction of air, water and the |
Sun |
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Puffy, white clouds, with white bottoms |
Cumulus clouds |
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Lines on a weather map that connect points of equal air pressure. |
Isobars |
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Fog is a *Blank* cloud that forms near or at the ground. |
Stratus cloud |
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This weather tool is used for measuring wind speed |
An anemometer |
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A sling psychrometer is used to measure |
Humidity |
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What tool is used to measure wind direction? |
Wind vane |
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Fast flowing, narrow, ribbon like air currents |
Jet stream |
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The place where cold and warm air masses meet is called.. |
Front |
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A line on a weather map that connects areas is equal temperature... |
Isotherm |
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What type of fronts produces violent storms |
Cold |
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Hurricanes form over.. |
Tropical oceans |
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Along a warm front, the warmer, less dense air |
Rises |
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A high pressure system would create what type of weather? |
Fair |
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Warm, moist air rises over the ocean, causing strong winds and heavy rains. What type of storm is this? |
Hurricane |
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Name the layers of the atmosphere from earth up... |
Troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere, exosphere. |
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In what layer of the atmosphere would a jet fly to avoid a storm? |
Stratosphere |
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Harmful ultraviolet rays from the sun are primarily absorbed by.. |
Ozone |
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Which two gases are found in the greatest amounts in our atmosphere? |
Nitrogen and oxygen |
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Why would a town in the dessert now experience early morning fog? |
Little water vapor and little condensation. |
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How do ocean currents affect climate? |
Cold water moves to earn areas and warm water moves to cold areas. |
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What causes the formation of land and sea breezes? |
Land heats and cools more quickly
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The jet stream flows from Canada, what kind of weather will it bring? |
Cool |
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Clouds form from warm air rising, expanding, cooling, and becoming saturated, then... |
Water vapor condenses into tiny water droplets. |
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If the ozone layer disappears, life on earth would be exposed to *Blank* levels of UV rays |
Higher |
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This current affects North America by bringing in cooler, polar waters southward and cooling the pacific coast. |
California currents |
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Air flow in this region of earth results from the sun heating the surface near the equator, causing warm air to rise cool and descend near 30 latitude. |
Tropic stream |
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Why would a city in the middle of a continent have warmer summers and cooler winters than a city near the coast at the same elevation? |
Land has lower ability to hold heat. |
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This current brings warmer waters north east, warming the Atlantic coast. |
The Gulf Stream. |
