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| When an object absorbs any form of radiation its temperature... |
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| The cooler an object, the ____________ wavelenth it emits. |
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| when energy increases, wavelength _______. |
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| Radio waves have a longer wavelength than gamma rays t/f |
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| Why does north america have colder temperatures in the winter and warmer in the summer? |
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| bc of the way the earth rotates and insolation. |
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| The percentage of the total radiation that is reflected by a surface is called its |
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| Which gases are important heat absorbers in Earth's atmosphere? |
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| The co2 content of the atmosphere has been _____________ for the last 50 years. |
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| What is temperature inversion and in what levels of the atmosphere does it occur? |
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| when the temperature of the atmosphere increases with altitude, this occurs in the troposphere |
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| What are the four levels of teh atmosphere in increasing order? |
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| Troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere and thermosphere |
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| What are the 3 transistional levels of the atmosphere? |
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| Tropopause, Stratopause, Mesopause |
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| In what layer of the atmopshere is ozone concentrated? |
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| What is the process where h20 changes from a solid to a gas? |
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| What is the energy released during condensation called? |
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| Whenever air expands, its temperature _________ |
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| When air is forced to rise over unstable elements it is called what? |
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| As altitude increases, air pressure ____. |
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| Heat makes air molecules move __________. |
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| Warm air weighs __________ than cold air, and why? |
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| less because there are less air molecules tehre |
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| Cool air has _________ pressure than warm air. |
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| Moist air weighs ___________ than dry air. |
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| Dry air has ________ pressure than moist air. |
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| The higher you go, the ______ air there is. |
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| What force is the result of earths rotation and causees the air to be deflated to the right of its path in the Northern Hemisphere? |
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| Lines connected to the places of equal air pressure are called what? |
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| Cyclones, or lows, are associated with what kinds of surface winds and air? |
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| HIGH surface winds and RISING air. |
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| Anticyclones or highs are associated with what kinds of surface winds and air? |
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| rising winds and dry air. |
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| What kinds of weather are cyclones associtaed with? |
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| What kinds of weather are anticyclones associated with? |
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| A falling barometer = what kind of weather? |
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| Gases are made up of what? |
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| What is a huge body of air that covers a very large area? |
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| Places within the area of an air mass often have the same what? |
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| humidity, moisture, and temperature. |
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| What kind of front moves more rapidly? |
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| What kind of front makes temperatures rise? |
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| What is the border between air masses called? |
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| What clouds are high and wispy? |
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| What clouds are responsible for thunderstorms? |
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| What are the last clouds that you see along a warm front? |
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| What are the first clouds taht you see along a warm front? |
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| What clouds warn of rain or snow? |
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| What are low lying clouds? |
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| Usually precipitation from a warm front lasts how long? |
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| After a warm front passes, does the weather become colder of warmer? |
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| Are cold fronts typically twice as steep as warm fronts? |
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| In a warm front, what pushese out the cold air? |
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| What is wind the result of? |
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| horizontal differences in air pressure |
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| the higher you go, the __________ your air pressure. |
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| Warm air molecules are.... |
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| What three things can change air pressure? |
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| temperature, height above sea level, and the amount of water vapor in the air. |
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| Is moist air lighter than dry air? |
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