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2. What percentage of the atmosphere is nitrogen?
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3. 79%

4. What layer of the atmosphere does weather occur in?
Category

5. Troposphere

6. What is the mixture of gasses surrounding earth called?

7. The atmosphere

8. Where are the polar easterlies located?

9. 60-90 north and south latitude

10. What is the Coriolis effect?

11. The apparent curving of an object due to Earth’s rotation

12. How much of the Sun’s total radiation is absorbed by the Earth’s surface

13. 50%

14. What is the type of energy transfer from the Sun’s rays?

15. Radiation

16. What is the type of energy transfer that occurs with direct contact?

17. Conduction

18. What type of heat transfer happens inside the atmosphere?

19. Convection

20. What is the difference between heat and temperature?

21. Heat is the energy transfer from one object to another because of a difference in temperature
Temperature is a measure of the average energy of the individual atoms/molecules in a substance

22. What is the condition of the atmosphere at a given place and time called?

23. Weather

24. What is a front?

25. The colliding of two or more air masses

26. Describe an altocirrus cloud

27. Middle altitude and feathery

28. What is the dewpoint?

29. The temperature at which water in the atmosphere condenses

30. What is relative humidity?

31. How much water is in the air compared to the maximum amount it can hold

32. What does an anemometer measure?

33. Wind speed

34. What scale is used to measure tornadoes?

35. Enhanced Fujita

36. What scale is used to measure hurricanes?

37. Saffir-Simpson

38. What does an isobar do?

39. Connects lines of equal air pressure

40. Where would a cA air mass form?

41. Antarctica

42. What is the average weather over a long period of time?

43. Climate

44. Which type of severe weather is associated with severe thunderstorms called supercells?

45. Tornadoes

46. What is the dew point on this station model?

47. 61

48. What does a psychrometer measure?

49. Relative humidity

50. What is caused by the rapid expansion of air?

51. Thunder