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| The earth is surrounded by what? |
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| What is the layer closest to the earth and how thick is it |
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| The trohposphere and 13 km thick |
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| The earth's ozone layer is in what layer |
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| The ozone layer blocks what? |
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| What is the layer after the stratosphere? |
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| What is the outer most layer of the atmosphere? |
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| The weight of the atmosphere pressing down on Earth |
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| Why is the air pressure greater at sea level than a mountain? |
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| Because there is more air near the surface of the earth than farther away |
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| What is the percntage of the sun's rays is reflected by the earth's surface |
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| The sinking of cold air and the rising of warm air moves air causing wind. |
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| Movement of air that result from the same direction. |
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| Where do local winds occur? |
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| During local wind, what happens in the day? |
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| The air over the land is warmer than the air over the water so the air becomes more dense and blows wind towards the land and causes a sea breeze |
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| What happens at night during local wind? |
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| Since land cools faster than water does so when the land becomes cooler, it blows a wind to the water making a land breeze |
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| What are prevailing winds? |
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| Global winds that blow constantly from the same direction. |
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| What happens with prevailing winds? |
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| Cold air fom the poles sink and move to equator where it turns to warm air and goes to the poles to get cold. The cycle repeats |
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| What formation do prevailing wind move in? Why does it move in this formation? |
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| Curved paths and because the earth's rotation so it moves the winds |
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