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Ch. 28.1-28.4 Flashcards

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1
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layer extending and average of 12 km above Earths surface

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tropospher

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2
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occurs when ari temperature increases with altitude and the air becomes stable

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temperature inversion

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3
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natural process in which certain gases in the atmospher warm a planet as they absorb and emit infrared radiation

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greenhouse effect

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how are the atmosher layers devided?

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difference of composition and temperature

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what gass makes up the morgorary of the atmospher

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nitrogen at 78%

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6
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which gass makes up 21% of the atmospher

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oxygen at 21%

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what is the remaning 1% of atmospher? the morgrady of theses gasses?

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trace gasses/ Argon

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within the troposphere does the temperature increas or decreas?

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decrease going up

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who many layrs ar ein the atomsphere

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5

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what are the names of the lyers from the serface up?

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tropospher stradosphere, meosphere, thermalsphere,exosphere

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11
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which layer is the ozone fond in

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stradosphere

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12
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withint stradosphehere doestemp increas or decreas

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increas

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13
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does temperture increas or decreas in the mesosphere

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the lower mesosphere decreas higher mesophere (80km) invcreas

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14
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do the thrmosphere and exosphere impact weather?

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no

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15
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where does 100% of solar radiation come from

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sun

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16
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what percent of solar radiation is obsorbed by nearths serface

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50%

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17
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what percent of sloar radiation is refletive of of earths surface`

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5%

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18
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what percent is absorbed by particals in the atmosphere

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20%

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19
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what percentagem of solar radiation is reflective by clods and other particals?

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25%

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20
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what are the 3 basic clod types

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stratus, cumulus, cirrus

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21
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discrib stratus clods

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layered sheet-like clods

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22
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discrib cumulus clods

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puffy

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23
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discrib cirrus clods

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wispy high-altitude

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24
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what are all the steps of the water cycle

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percipitation, runoff, condensation, evaparation, transpirtation

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narrow band of fast-moving, high-altitude air

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jet stream

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26
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apparent deflection of an object due to earth’s rotation

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coriolis effect

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27
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large volume of air with uniform moisture and temperature throughout

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air mass

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28
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aif messes interact in zones

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weather front

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29
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who many jet streams are therer in the world?

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4

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30
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who many pressure system are there?

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2

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31
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what are low pressure system also called

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a Low (L)

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32
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which derection does a Low go

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counter-clock wise

33
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what reasslts for the Low pressure system?

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ionair rises causing cloud formation and preciptation

34
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what is a high pressure-system also called

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High (H)

35
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Witvh derection does a high pressure-system truns

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clockwise

36
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what is a resalt of this pressure system

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air to sinck causing clear skys

37
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what are the 4 wearther fronts?

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cold, warm, sationary, occluded

38
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how are clod fronts creatied

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when cold air forces warm air upward in fast and chaotic manner

39
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who are cold fronts shown on the news

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blue riangles

40
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how are warm frots creatied

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warm air fwntuly above colf air

41
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how are warm fronts shown on the news

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red circels

42
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how is stationary front formed

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cold and warm air masses meet and neither front advances

43
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how are stationarty front shown on the news

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red half cirls and blue triangles rotating top and bottom of line

44
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How is occluded front formed

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a fast-moving cold front overtskes a slow moving warm front

45
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how do the news show this

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with purple half circels and triangles rotating

46
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cliamte that is strongly affected by an ocean

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Maritime climat

47
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climate that is not directly affected by an ocean

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Continental climate

48
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a breeze the blows from over the water toward land in the afternoon when the land is warmer than the water

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sea breeze

49
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What is climate

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Long term average of weather conditions

50
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what is weather

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day to day outside conditions

51
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What are the five spheres that make up earths system

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Atmosphere, Cryosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere, biosphere

52
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what is the atomsphere

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air around us

53
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what is the biosphere

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everything organic

54
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what is hydrosphere

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liquid water

55
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what is lithosphere

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earths outermost layer

56
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what is cryosphere

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frozen water ( snow, ice, glaciers)

57
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what is the prymaer facter that influences climate at any given location

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Latituded

58
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where is solar radiation most intense on Earth’s serface?

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equater

59
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at what dergrees do the sunraise hit the tropical zones?

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90 drgeres

60
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what dergrees do the sunraise hit earth at the tinter zones?

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45 dregers

61
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what degrees do the r\sunraise hit the poler zones

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30 drgres

62
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whitch zone is lamar CO going to be located in?

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temperet

63
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what facters determan climate

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precipitation, Lattiud, water

64
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what is the windward side conditions like?

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air cool and wet, montains have lots of plants

65
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what are the conditions like on the leeward side

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conditions dry and trees only grow past a scerten part

66
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what is a land breez

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thw wind blows from the land to water when its night

67
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whitch climangt zone and what type of veucation does Colorado have

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climate- warm semi-arid Veucation- grassland

68
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increase in the average temperatures of earth’s near-surface air and oceans

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global warming

69
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warming of the Pacific oceans off the coast of western South America that occurs every 3 to 10 years

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El Nino

70
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occurs when trade winds in the Pacific are unusually strong and surface water is colder then normal

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La Nina

71
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what are two seasonal changes that earth’s climate undergoes

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72
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how do seasonal changeces occur?

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how earth revolvs around the sun

73
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whitch hemisphere experienc summer

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the hemisphere the is tilled to sun

74
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what was the porid of time called when most of earth’s serface was covered in ice

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ice age

75
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apout how long ago did the words climate reach its cerent patner

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3,000

76
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what are some factersz that can cause climant chang

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shap of the orbat, distance from the sun, the tillt of the axes

77
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how can humans chang the climant change

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energy consuption, deforeststation, industral, angucaltral practices

78
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what is deforestaition

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clearing of larg areas os forest land

79
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how does deforestation afecct climate change

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takes oxign

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