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What weather kills the most people annually?
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Extreme Heat and Cold
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What weather cause the most damage (costs the most to fix) annually?
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Floods and Hurricanes
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What is an atmospheric Reservoir?
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The atmospheric Reservoir is the concept that represents the constant throughput of gasses between surface exchange and/or internal processes
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Define Steady State.
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Steady State refers to the constant gas concentration when input (gas moving from group to atmosphere) equals output (gas from atmosphere to ground)
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What is the difference between weather and Meteorology?
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Meteorology is the study of the atmosphere and the processes that cause weather
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What is Residence Time?
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Residence Time is the average length of time individual molecules remain in the atmosphere
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What's the difference between Permanent gases and Variable gases?
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Permanent gases has a constant proportion of atmospheric mass while variable gases varies in both time and space
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What are 3 variable gases?
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Water Vapor (H20), Carbon Dioxide (CO2), Ozone (O3)
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On a imagery map that show water vapor and visible, what is the difference between maps?
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On a water vapor imagery map, the dark spots are a lack of water vapor.
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What is Triatomic Oxygen?
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Triatomic Oxygen is three oxygen atoms form a single molecule. Atomic Oxygen collides with molecular oxygen.
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Define Density.
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Density is the amount of mass of the substance (expressed in kilograms) contained in a unit of volume (m3)
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Name the four layers of atmosphere (based on temp.) from bottom to top.
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troposhere
stratosphere Mesosphere thermosphere |
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What is the Ionosphere?
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The ionosphere extends from upper mesopsphere into thermosphere. It has a high ion concentration
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What is Aurora Borealis?
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Aurora Borealis and Aurora australis exist in the ionosphere.
-subatomic particles from the sun caputred by Earth's magnetic field -captured energy causes gas to become excited |