Assignment
What parameter (humidity, pressure, temperature etc) is used to define the vertical structure of the atmosphere?
What is air composed of? What are the two primary gases?
What parameter (humidity, pressure, temperature etc) always decreases with altitude
What atmospheric gas absorbs dangerous short wavelength radiation from the Sun? Where is most of it located? Where on Earth is it most depleted raising concerns?
What is the aurora and where on Earth is it most visible?
What element exists in all three states on Earth?
What are the three greenhouse gases and which one are scientists most concerned about today?
Which atmospheric gas is most important for formation of clouds and precipitation? What percentage of the atmosphere does it comprise?
How is oxygen regenerated in our atmosphere?
Ninety percent of the atmosphere lies below what altitude in kilometers?
What processes were involved in the formation of Earth's first atmosphere?
Where on Earth is the tropopause lowest and highest?
Where are the coldest temperatures in the atmosphere?
What and where is the ionosphere?
What is the lapse rate in the troposphere?
What is advection?
What is albedo?
What is the inclination of Earth axis in relation to the Sun at the beginning of each of the seasons? What is the tilt of the axis in relation to the plane of Earth's orbit?
What causes the seasons? How are seasons in N and S hemispheres related
What is convection and how does it occur?
How is solar altitude related to the length of the path of sunlight through the atmosphere?
How is temperature and radiation wavelength related
What is an insulator?
Excluding the Sun, the atmosphere is heated by what source?
What effect do large bodies of water have on temperature?
Where was the highest temperature in the U.S. recorded
What does windward and leeward mean?
The daily max and min temperatures generally occur at what times?
In a one day period how much to oceans warm or cool?
Why does the S hemisphere experience a more moderate climate than the N hemisphere?
What is heat?
What factor causes the seasons to vary very little at the equator?
What is a thermograph?
What factors most affect what temperature a person "feels"?
What are isotherms and what do they indicate?
What is specific heat?
How do clouds affect the daily temperature?
What is meant by lapse rate?
What is convection and when is it likely to be strongest?
What are the terms for the various changes of state of Water?
What is expansional cooling?
Addition of water vapor to air will have what effect on dew point and humidity?
How is the capacity of air to hold water vapor affected by temperature?
What is convection?
What two things happen to air when it rises and what effect dos this have on humidity> Likewise what happens when air sinks?
When is the relative humidity highest and lowest on an average sunny day?
In relation to the hydrologic cycle what processes absorb and release heat into the atmosphere?
What is convergence and divergence? Surface air convergence and divergence would likely produce what kind of weather?
What is the dew point?
What is a psychrometer?
What is advection fog? Radiation fog?