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As you move upward from sea level air pressure

Decreases

The source of all energy in our atmosphere

Sun

This atmospheric layer blends with outer space

Exosphere

The layer of the atmosphere where weather occurs

Troposphere

The layer with the highest concentration of ozone

Stratosphere

The process of water vapor changing to a liquid

Condensation

Due to the amount of gravitational force air pressures is greatest at

Sea level

Rain,snow , sleet or hail are

Precipitation

A large body of air that has the same properties as the surface over which it develops

Air mass

Low , layered , gray clouds that produce light preciptation

Stratus

High ,thin , white, featheryclouds

Cirrus

Dew , clouds, frost are all forms of

Condensation

Weather is caused by the interaction of air , water and the

Sun

Puffy, white clouds ,with flat bottoms

Cumulus

Lines on a weather map that connect points of equal air pressure

Isobors

Fog is a. Cloud that forms near the ground

Stratus

This weather tool is used for measuring wind speed

Anemometer

A sling psychrometer is used to measure

Relative humidity

What tool is used to measure wind direction

Wind vane

Fast flowing, narrow , ribbon like air currents

Jet stream

The place where cold and warm air masses meet is called

Front

A line on a weather map that connect areas of equal temperature

Isotherm

What type of front produces violent storms

Cold

Hurricanes form over

Tropical oceans

Along a warm front , the warmer , less dense air

Rises

A high pressure system should creat what type of weather

Fair

Warm, moist air rise over the ocean ,causing a strong winds and heavy rains. What type of storm

Hurricane ,mesosphere,thermosphere,exosphere

Name the layers of the atmosphere from earth up

Troposphere, stratosphere

In what layer of the atmosphere would a jet pilot fly to avoid a thunderstorm

Stratosphere

Harmful ultraviolet rays from the sun are primarily absorbed by

Ozone layer

Which two gases are found in the greatest amounts in our amounts in our atmosphere

Nitrogen and oxygen

Why would a town in the desert not experience early morning fog .

Less water vapor warm water to cold

How do surface ocean currents affect climate

Cold water to warm areas more quickly than water

What cause the formation of land and sea breeze

Land heats and cools

The jet stream flows from Canada , what kind of weather will it bring

Cool

Clouds form from warm air rising, expanding, cooling and becoming saturated, then condenses into tiny water droplets

Water vapor

If the ozone layer disappears, life on earth would exposed to Level of uv rays

Higher

In an experiment the variable that stays the same is called

Controlled

This current affects North America by bringing in cooler,polar waters southward and cooling the Pacific coast

California

Air flow is the region of earth results from the Suns heating the surface in the near equator ,causing warm air to rise cool and descend near 30 latitude

Tropical

What would a city in the middle of a continent have warm summers and cool winters then the city near the coast at the same elevation

Land has low ability to hold heat

This current brings warm water northeast ,warming the Atlantic coast

Gulf steam