Atmosphere

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Atmosphere
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Winds
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Heating the Earth
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Atmosphere 2
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Gases
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Heating the Earth
Atmosphere 2
Winds
Atmosphere
Gases

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CATEGORY 1 - 100
The lowest level of our atmosphere

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• What is the Troposphere?

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CATEGORY 1 - 200
The Second level of the Atmosphere

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• What is the Stratosphere?

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The outermost level of our Atmosphere

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• What is the Thermosphere

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The 3rd layer of our Atmoshpere

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• What is the Mesophere?

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CATEGORY 1 - 500
The 2 layers of the Atmosphere where weather take
place

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• What is are the Troposphere and Stratosphere?

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CATEGORY 2 - 100
A region near the equator where the Trade Winds
cease for extended periods.

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• What are Doldrums?

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CATEGORY 2 - 200
Atmospheric circulation cells between
approximately 30 60 latitude.

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• What are Ferrel Cells?

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CATEGORY 2 - 300
Atmospheric circulation cells between the equator
and approximately 30 latitude.

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• What are Hadley Cells?

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CATEGORY 2 - 400
Local seasonal wind pattern caused by heat from
the continents that results in summers with
significant rainfall and winters with very little
rainfall.

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• What is Monsoon?

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CATEGORY 2 - 500
Atmosphere circulation cell between approximately
50 to 60 latitude and the North or South Pole.

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• What Polar Cells?

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The ability of the Earths atmosphere to hold and
reuse energy close to the Earths surface.

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• What is the Greenhouse Effect?

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CATEGORY 3 - 200
Highly reactive oxygen gas molecule made up of 3
oxygen atoms.

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• What is Ozone?

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A hydrocarbon gas that includes flourine and
chlorine in the hydrocarbon molecule. Known to
destroy ozone in the atmosphere

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• What is Chloroflouracarbon?

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CATEGORY 3 - 400
The angle of tilt measured with 0 at
perpendicular between a planets rotation axis
and the plane of its orbit around the sun.

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• What is Axial Inclination?

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The measure of reflectivity.

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• What is Albedo?

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CATEGORY 4 - 100
Layer of the atmosphere 31 to 56 miles above sea
level.

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• What is Mesosphere?

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CATEGORY 4 - 200
Layer of the atmosphere in contact with earths
surface up to 9 miles above sea level.

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• What is the Troposhere?

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CATEGORY 4 - 300
The layer of the atmosphere 56 miles above sea
level.

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• What is the Thermosphere?

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Layer of atmosphere from 9 to 31 miles above sea
level.

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• What is the Stratosphere?

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The layer of the atmosphere that absorbs most of
the ultraviolet radiation.

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• What is the Stratosphere?

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78 of the air we breath

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• What is Nitrogen?

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.03 of the air we breath.

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• What is Carbon Dioxide?

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.93 of the air we breath.

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• What is Argon?

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20.95 of the air we breath.

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• What is Oxygen?

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In 1974, scientist Roland, Crutzen and Molina
showed that __________ released in the atmosphere
react with ozone.

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• What is Chloroflourocarbons?

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Earths Heat Balance
Coriolis Effect
Air Sun
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Air Sun
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Earths Heat Balance
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Coriolis Effect
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Potpourri
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Earths Heat Balance
Coriolis Effect
Air Sun
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CATEGORY 1 - 200
Most of the mass of the air exist in these layers.

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• What are the Troposphere and Stratosphere?

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CATEGORY 1 - 400
Besides the gaseous components, the atmosphere
has two other components that account for about
4 of its total volume.

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• What are water vapor and Aerosols?

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CATEGORY 1 - 600
A lot of air cooling occurs where a warm,
moisture laden air mass collides with a cooler
air mass.

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• What is rain or snowfall?

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The liquid and solid particles suspended in the
air such as dust, pollen or ash.

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• What are Aerosols?

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___________ is our primary source of freshwater?

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• What is precipitaion?

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CATEGORY 2 - 200
of all the sunlight that reaches the atmoshpere
makes it the earths surface.

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• What is 50?

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To maintain balance with the heat from the sun,
all the energy absorbed reradiates through
various paths back into space __________.

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• What is Infrared Radiation?

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The earth is round, tilted axis and elliptical
orbit.

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• What are the factors that cause the earth to
  heat unevenly?

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Vertical circular currents caused by temperature
differences.

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• What is Convection Current?

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The average distance the earth is from the sun.

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• What is 93 million miles?

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The man named for the Coriolis Effect.

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• Who is Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis?

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Winds deflect to the right in this hemisphere.

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• What is the Northern Hemisphere?

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Wind blowing form the west in the mid-latitudes
of the northern and southern hemisphere.

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• What are Westerlies?

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The prevailing pattern of easterly surface winds
found in the tropics?

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• What are Trade Winds?

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Convection currents and what create Coriolis
Effect? .

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• What is the Earths Rotation?

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The imaginary line around the earth that
separates the northern and southern hemisphere at
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• What is the geographic Equator?

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An imaginary line marking temperature equilibrium
between the hemispheres that shift lightly north
or south of the geographic equator with seasonal
changes.

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• What is the Meteorlogical Equator or ITCZ?

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Region at 30 latitude in both hemispheres where
dry air sinks along the boundary of the Hadley
cells and the Ferrel cells.

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• What are the Horse Latitudes?

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Six Distinct air masses with individual air flow
patterns

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• What are Atmospheric Circulation Cells?

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Air in which the rate of evaporation balances the
rate of condensation.

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• What is Saturated Air?

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Global Warming

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FINAL CATEGORY
Former Vice President who stars in a documentary
about Global warming called An Inconvenient
Truth.

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• Who is Al Gore?