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The Science ofWEATHER

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The making of

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Energy

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How many degrees is the earth tilted?

23.5 degrees

Energy

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What are the two causes of seasons?

1.Tilt of Earth2.Earth’s Revolution around the sun

Energy

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Word meaning seasons with equal hours of day

and night

Equinox

Energy

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Proper name for season with the most hours of daylight

Summer Solstice

Energy

500

Our atmosphere is made of several gases. Certain ones like carbon dioxide, methane, and water vapor are efficient at trapping heat. This trapping of heat is known asThe Greenhouse Effect

Heat Transfer

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The direct transfer of heat from the sunTo the earth is called:

Radiation

Heat Transfer

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The transfer of heat fromone object to another when one object touches the otherConduction

Heat Transfer

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The transfer of heat by themovement of fluids like airor water is called:

Convection

Heat Transfer

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What type of heat transfer getsheat throughout the entire troposphere?

Convection

Heat Transfer

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Using the 3 heat transfer termsdescribe how the atmosphere gets heated.1.Energy from sun radiates to the ground

2.The Ground conducts heat to air molecules3.Heated molecules rise up through convection

Wind

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As warm air rises it creates an area of low air pressure becauseit . . .

is less dense and weighs less

Wind

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What instrument is used tomeasure wind speed?

Anemometer

Wind

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Because of the rotation of the Earth, air returning to the equatorgets pushed off it’s course. This is called the . . .

Coriolis Effect

Wind

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It’s the horizontal movement

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Wind is the movement of air fromareas of high to areas of low pressure. What’s missing from this definition?

Wind

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At 30 degrees North Latitude there are no global winds. Which way is the air mostly moving there? Down

Air Masses

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An air mass of dry and cold air is called

Continental polar

Air Masses

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A humid warm air mass is called

Maritime Tropical

Air Masses300 Points

The place where two air masses meet but don’t mix is called the

Front

Air Masses

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What instrument is used to measure relative humidity?

psychrometer

Air Masses500

Air masses are bodies of air that have what 3 similar factors?

Temperature, humidity andPressure

The Making of Rain

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Liquid water becomes water vaporthrough the process of . . . evaporation

The Making of Rain

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As warm moist air rises it cools.The water molecules come togetherin a process called.

Condensation

The making of rain

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As humid air begins to condensesit forms

Clouds / Rain / Snow

The Making of Rain

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For every thousand feet air risesit will decrease in temperature byhow many degrees Celsius? Three

The Making of Rain

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Why do fierce thunderstorms occurin Florida daily between 1 and 3 This is the time of most direct light and so

the land is most heated there and rises quickly.