Science Chapter 20
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- study of earth's atmosphere
- meteorology
- the layer of the atmosphere that extends upward from the troposphere to an altitude of 50km contains the ozone layer
- stratosphere
- only H gas here; many satellites orbit here; von allen belts found hole here
- exosphere
- the continuous movement of water from the atmosphere to earth & back
- water cycle
- any form of water that falls back to earth's surface from clouds includes rain, snow, sleet and hail
- precipitation
- the quantity of water vapor in the atmosphere
- humidity
- large body of air which uniform temperature and moisture content
- air mass
- boundary where a warmer air mass pushes into a cooler air mass; long periods of steady rain
- warm front
- Question???
- sling psychrometer
- line dran on a weather map connecting points of equal barometric or atmospheric pressure
- isobar
- carrier water
- convection
- found hole in exosphere
- Van Allen Belts
- Question??
- jet stream
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- polar easterlies
- blanket or ocean of air that surrounds the earth
- atmosphere
- coldest layer of the atmosphere; located above the stratosphere
- mesosphere
- change of a liquid to gas
- evaporation
- change of a solid to a gas
- sublimation
- ratio of the quantity of water vapor in air to the max quantity of water vapor that can be present at that temperature
- relative humidity
- boundary between air masses of different densities
- front
- the atmosperic condition in which warm air traps cooler air near earth's surface
- temperature inversion
- question
- temperature
- travels in form of waves
- radiation
- polar easterlies - air rises
- doldrums
- the form of atmospheric oxygen that has 3 atoms per molecule
- ozone
- the atmospheric layer closest to earth's surface where
- troposphere
- atmosphereic layer above the mesosphere
- thermosphere
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- ozone layer
- change from gas to liquid
- condensation
- evaporation of water throught the plant's pores
- transpiration
- temperature to which air must be cooled for condensation to occur
- dew point
- boundary where a cooler air mass pushes into a warmer air mass; often brings T-storms & squal lines
- cold front
- T-storms in the Indian Ocean
- cyclone
- general weather conditions over many years
- climate
- the process by which the atmosphere traps some of the energy from the sun in the troposhere
- greenhouse effect
- direct contact
- conduction
- the pressure due to the weight of the atmosphere; also called air pressure or atmospeheric pressure
- barometric pressure
- the change in the direction of an objects path due to earth's rotation
- coriolis effect