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What is climate?

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Climate is the average cause or condition of the weather or a place usually over a period of years determined by temperature, wind velocity, and precipitation.

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What is Atmosphere?

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Atmosphere is the layer of air that surrounds the earth

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What types of gases are in the atmosphere? Name all five.

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Nitrogen, oxygen, argon, carbon dioxide, and hydrogen.

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What gas is the most abundant in the atmosphere?

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Nitrogen

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What are the five layers of the atmosphere? In order from earth to space

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Troposphere
Stratosphere
Mesosphere
Thermosphere
Exosphere
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What happens as altitude increases?

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Pressure decreases

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What is the atmospheric pressure in sea level?

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1000 millibars, or 1 atmosphere

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Why is the atmosphere divided into 5 layers?

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The atmosphere is not uniform, and its properties change with altitude.

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What atmosphere is closest to the earth?

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Troposphere

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What is the height of the troposphere?

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0 to 10 km

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What are the characteristics of the troposphere? Name all 3

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All weather occurs in that atmosphere, more than half the air is in the layer, and the temperature drops as the altitude increases.

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What is the height of the stratosphere?

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10-50 km

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For the stratosphere, as the altitude increases, the temperature…

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The temperature increases

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Characteristics of Stratosphere, name the two

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Protective ozone layer is above of this atmosphere, and rivers of air called jet streams can be found at the base of this layer

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What is OZONE?

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Ozone is a gaseous layer in the upper stratosphere that protects the Earth from harmful ultraviolet radiation. At lower levels, ozone becomes a major pollutant.

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What is the symbol for Ozone?

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O3

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What is SMOG?

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Pollution formed by the interaction of pollutants and sunlight (photochemical smog), usually restricting visibility, and occasionally hazardous to health.

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What is the height for mesosphere?

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50-90km

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For the mesosphere, as the altitude increases, the temperature…

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Decreases

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Characteristics of the mesosphere, name 3

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Coldest layer of the atmosphere, Meteors burn in this layer, radio waves reflected

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Hieght of the thermosphere

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90-300km

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For the thermosphere, as the altitude increases, the temperature…

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Increases

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4 Characteristics of the themosphere

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Hottest layer, auroras occur in this layer, ionosphere is found here which is the component that creates auroras

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How do CFCs deplete the ozone layer?

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It gets mixed with the lower atmosphere and keeps rising up, past the ozone layer, and UV light reacts with it. It creates O3 and chlorine destroys ozone molecules.

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What products are responsible for damaging the ozone layer?
Pesticides, aerosol cans, refrigirators, ACs, fire fighting equipments, and solvents.
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What are cirrus clouds?
Clouds that are high, wispy clouds made of ice. Even in the summer, these clouds are made of ice because it is cold high in the troposphere.
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What does cirrus mean?
Curls
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What are cumulus clouds?
Large clouds that sometimes looks like huge puffs of cotton. Sometimes, these clouds look like animals of familiar things at low to middle altitude.
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What does cumulus mean?
Heap
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What is weather?
Weather is the state of the atmosphere with respect to heat or cold, wetness or dryness, calm or storm, and clearness or cloudiness.
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What are cumulonimbus clouds?
Cumulonimbus clouds often produce lighting and thunder. These clouds get dark gray and rain or hail falls from them.
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What are stratus clouds?
Clouds that are made up of low layers of clouds that usually cover the whole sky and block out the sun. These clouds bring gray overcast days.
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What does stratus mean?
Stretched out
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Cirrus
High
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Alto
Middle
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Stratus
Low
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What are warm fronts?
Warm air slides over departing cold or large bands of precipitation from. Cold air and warm air slide over each other, and cold air stays in the bottom and holds the ground because its denser.
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What are cold fronts?
When cold air pushes under a warm air mass. Warm air rises quickly - narrow bands of violent storms form. Cold air pushes the warm air and does whatever it wants, and thunderstorms are more likely because it's rapid.
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How do cold fronts get diminished?
By thermal energy from the sun
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What are occluded fronts?
Two air masses merge and face warm air between them to rise quickly. Strong winds and heavy precipitation will occur.
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What are stationary fronts?
Warm or cold front STOPS MOVING. Light wind and precipitation may occur accros the front boundary.
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What are tornadoes?
Tornadoes are a low pressure storm that usually from over land
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How many tornadoes are reported in the US?
In an average year, around 800 are reported.
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What are tornadoes defined as?
Tornadeos are defined as a violently rotating column of air extending from a thunderstorm from the ground. The roatating column is called the vortex.
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When is the vortex visible?
The vortex is only visible when debris and dirt gets carried away by the wind.
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When do tornadoes form?
Tornadoes form during summer and spring, from April to June at COLD FRONTS.
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Where do tornadoes form?
Tornadoes form in Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Illinois, and parts of Florida. The border is the Rocky Mountains.
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What is the average mph for tornadoes?
10-20mph
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What is the average duration of tornadoes?
5 min.
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What natural disasters are not weather related?
Earthquakes and Tsunamis
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What is a WATCH?
Conditions are favorable for tornado to develop
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What is a WARNING?
Tornado has been spoted.
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What scale is used to classify tornadoes?
The Enhanced Fujita Scale
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What is EF-0?
Light damage, 65-85 mph, and can cause some damage to siding and shingles.
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What is F-1?
Moderate damage, 86-110 mph, considerable damage, but still repairable.
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What is an EF-2?
COnsiderable damage, 111-135 mph, single wide homes destroyed, can shift off foundation, softwood trees debarked, flagpoles collapse.
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What is an EF-3?
Severe damage, 136-165 mph, hardwood trees debarked, all but small portions of houses destroyed
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What is an EF-4?
Devastating damage, 166-200mph, complete destruction
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What is an EF-5?
Incredible damage, 200+ mph, significant damage.
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What are hurricanes?
Low pressure systems that form over warm, tropical waters near the equator.
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What latitude to hurricanes form in?
5-20 degrees north latitude, and they almost never occur in the south.
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What are hurricanes called in the atlantic?
Hurricanes
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What are hurricanes called in the Pacific?
Typhoons
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What are hurricanes called in the Indian Ocean?
Cyclones
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What is the average of hurricanes?
350 miles across
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What is the lowest barometric pressure ever recorded with any storm?
950 mb
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What creates rapid, inward spiraling of winds in a hurricane?
Huge air pressure difference
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When do hurricanes die down?
When it travels over land or cold water
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When is hurricane season?
Fall, June-November
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Where do winds begin in fronts?
High pressure and ends at low pressure
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What controls wind?
Pressure
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Low pressure equals...
Precipitation and cloud cover
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What number do isobars go by?
4
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How do you find barometric pressure in millibars?
Look at the first digit.IF that number is 4 or less, put a ten in front and put a decimal point before the last digit. IF the first number is 6 or more, then put a 9 in front and put a decimal point before the last digit.
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How do you graph isotherms?
By 10s
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What is a thermometer?
A thermometer takes the average thermal energy
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What is a barometer?
A barometer takes pressure
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What is a doppler radar?
A doppler radar records precipitation
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What is a weather buoy weather balloon?
It takes datat from the atmosphere
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What is a hygrometer/psychometer
Measures water vapor of the atmosphere
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What is an anemometer?
It measures wind speed
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What is a rain gauge?
A rain gauge is a type of instrument which is used to gather and measure the amount of liquid precipitation over a period of time
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What is a wind vane?
Measures direction of wind
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What is a wind sock?
A windsock is used to indicate wind direction and relative wind speed.
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What is a weather satellite?
It is used to monitor the weather and climate of the earth.
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What is evaporation?
Evaporation is when water evaporates from the surface into vapor
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What is condensation?
Condensation is when vapor condensates into small droplets of water and/or ice
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What is precipitation?
When water, hail, sleet, or ice fall to the surface.
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What is runoff
Water which runs along the surface into a collection of other water
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Groundwater?
Water found beneath earth's surface
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What is the Coriolis effect?
When storm swirls clockwise in the southern hemisphere, but counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere
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What is humidity?
The amount of water vapor in the atmosphere?
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What are isotherms?
A line on a map that connects points with the same range of temperature at a given time
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What are isobars?
A line on a map that connects points with same atmospheric pressure at a given time
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What is the cause of global warming?
Carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel
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What is extreme weather caused by?
Global warming
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What is maritime?
Coming from ocean, humid, low pressure
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What is Polar?
Cold, coming from the poles high pressure
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What is tropical?
Warm, coming from equatorial region, low pressure
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What is continental?
Coming from land, dry, high pressure
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What types of extreme weather are there?
Blizzard, Tropical storms, hurricane, and tornado
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When a large and a rapidly moving cold air mass runs into a slow moving warm air mass, the result is a/an _______________.
Cold Front
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When air pressure rapidly falls or decreases to 29 inches, what weather change usually occurs?
Thunderstorm

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