1. 100 200 300 400 500 Air Weather Patterns Atmosphere Energy Transfer
Weather Variables
Weather Patterns
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2. 78% Nitrogen, 21% ____?____, 1% Other
Answer: Oxygen

3. Exosphere Thermosphere _______?_______ Stratosphere Troposphere
Answer: Mesosphere

4. Layer with the highest concentration of ozone
Answer: Stratosphere

5. Does temperature increase or decrease through the Thermosphere?
Answer: Increase

6. What altitude is air pressure the highest?
Answer: Sea-level

7. Transfer of energy by electromagnetic waves
Answer: Radiation

8. Earth receives and absorbs about ____% of incoming solar radiation
Answer: 51%

9. Greenhouse gases that trap radiation the best
Answer: Water Vapor, Carbon Dioxide, Methane

10. Transfer of thermal energy by collisions between particles of matter
Answer: Conduction

11. Transfer of thermal energy by the movement of particles within matter
Answer: Convection

12. Movement of air from areas of high pressure to low pressure
Answer: Wind

13. Answer: Westerlies

14. Answer: Sea Breeze

15. Sulfur dioxide and nitrogen dioxides combine with moisture in the atmosphere and form precipitation that has a lower pH than that of normal rainwater
Answer: Acid Rain

16. Answer: Inversion

17. Force that a column of air applies on the air or a surface below it
Answer: Air Pressure

18. Amount of water vapor in the air
Answer: Humidity

19. The temperature at which air if fully saturated and condensation can occur
Answer: Dew Point

20. Instrument used to measure air pressure
Answer: Barometer

21. Instrument used to measure wind speed
Answer: Anemometer

22. Air flows out and away of the center in this system
Answer: High-pressure System

23. Answer: Occluded Front

24. Name of the classification system for tornadoes
Answer: Fujita Scale

25. Lines the connect all places on a map where pressure has the same value
Answer: Isobars

26. Answer: Temperature of 34 F & Overcast