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| How does weather and climate differ? |
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| Weather-events occurring now; climate-weather that occurs year long |
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| What items are found in the atmosphere along with its percentage? |
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| Nitrogen-78%, Oxygen-21%, other gases-2% |
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| What's the difference between primary pollutants and secondary pollutants? |
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| Primary pollutant are pollutants that enter the atmosphere from a visible source, and secondary pollutant are pollutant that enter the atmosphere through other methods |
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| Where is ozone found? What is its purpose? |
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| Ozone is in the stratosphere and its purpose is to lock in heat |
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| What happens to pressure and temperature as you increase in altitude? |
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| Pressure and temperature decreases |
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| What's the difference between rotation and revolution? |
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| Rotation-spinning on its axis (day and night) and revolution-revolving around a body (365.25 days) |
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| What are the layers of the atmosphere in order from the Earth's surface upward? |
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| Troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere |
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| What's the difference between solstice and equinox? |
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Definition
| solstice-winter (shorter day and longer night), summer (longer day and shorter night), equinox-day and night are equal in length (fall and spring) |
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| Differentiate between the three ways heat is transferred? |
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| Conduction, radiation, convection |
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| What happens to solar radiation? |
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Definition
| Solar radiation-50% is absorbed on earth, 20% is absorbed in clouds, 30% is reflected off clouds |
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| Explain the difference between reflection and scattering? |
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Definition
| Reflection-rays bouncing off clouds, scattering-rays are moving in all direction |
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| List the ways temperature can vary on Earth |
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Definition
| Land heats up quick and cools quickly, water heats up slowly and cools down, clouds help lock in the temperature at night and reflect off radiation during the day |
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| How do temperature vary from land to sea? |
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Definition
| Land heats up quick and cools quickly, water heats up slowly and cools slowly |
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| What is albedo and how does it change from day to night? |
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Definition
| Clouds help lock in the temperature at night and reflect off radiation during the day |
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| How does altitude affect temperatures? |
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Definition
| As you move up in altitude temperatures cool down |
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| Explain air pressure. What unit do we measure pressure? |
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| Air pressure in a force exerted in all directions |
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| What is a barometer? List the two types? |
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| Tool measuring air pressure, mercury and aneroid |
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| Sun and pressure differences |
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| Winds move from a...... to ...... pressure systems. |
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| describe an isobar. What happens if they are closely spaced together? Far apart? |
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Definition
| isobars are lines of equal pressure, closely spaced lines are low pressure and widely spaced lines are high pressure |
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| Describe a high and low pressure system. Include weather conditions too. |
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Definition
| High pressure system-good weather (anti-cyclone moving clockwise moving clockwise), low pressure system-stormy weather (cyclone-counterclockwise) |
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| What direction does the Coriolis effect spin in the northern hemisphere? |
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| How does Friction affect wind? |
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| What direction does the jet stream travel in the Northern hemisphere? |
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| Where do you find friction at its strongest point? |
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| Describe the movement of cyclones and anticyclones. |
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| Cyclones move counterclockwise, anti-cyclones move clockwise |
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| Describe the movement of trade winds, westerlies and poplar easterlies. |
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Definition
| Trade winds move east to west, westerlies-move west to east,polar easterlies move east to west |
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| Explain the differences between land and sea breezes. How are they different in the day as to the night? |
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Definition
| Land breezes occur at night where wind moves from the land to sea,sea breezes occur during the day where wind moves from the sea to land |
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| What instrument is used to determine the direction of the wind? |
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| How do you classify the direction of the wind? |
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Definition
| By the direction it came from |
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| What instrument is used to measure the speed of wind? |
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