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1. Layers of the atmosphere
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Troposphere, Stratosphere, Mesosphere, Thermosphere, and Exosphere
These are the windows to the universe |
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2. Changing States of water
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From Solid, to liquid, to gas.
When ice melts to water, then water evaporates. |
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3. Saturation Point
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When no more of a substance can be absorbed into a vapor or dissolved into a solution.
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The stage beyond which no more of something can be absorbed or accepted.
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4. Relative Humidity
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the amount of water vapor present in air expressed as a percentage of the amount needed for saturation at the same temperature.
A higher precentage. |
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an instrument used for measuring the moisture content in the atmosphere.
Humidity measurement instruments usually rely on measurements of some other quantity such as temperature, pressure, mass or a mechanical or electrical change in a substance as moisture is absorbed. |
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the temperature to which a given parcel of air must be cooled.
At constant barometric pressure, for water vapor to condense into water. |
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7. Adiabatic Rates
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| Its something that happens when temperature changes due to the rising or sinking |
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a visible mass of condensed water vapor floating in the atmosphere, typically high above the ground.
Clouds are in the sky everyday. |
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a body of air with horizontally uniform temperature, humidity, and pressure.
A widespread body of air that originates over a large area of land or ocean andassumes the temperature and humidity of that area, with characteristics distributedfairly evenly throughout the horizontal layers of the mass.
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the force exerted onto a surface by the weight of the air.
air pressure is the average of sea-level air pressure |
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an instrument measuring atmospheric pressure, used especially in forecasting the weather and determining altitude.
We first heard of this in a youtube video mrs.kunkle showed the class. |
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lines of constant pressure.
A line drawn on a weather map connecting points of equal pressure is called an isobar |
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a system of winds rotating inward to an area of low atmospheric pressure.
It has a counterclockwise or clockwise circulation. |
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a weather system with high atmospheric pressure at its center, around which air slowly circulates in a clockwise or counterclockwise
Basically the reverse of Cyclones. |
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the boundary of an advancing mass of cold air.
in particular the trailing edge of the warm sector of a low-pressure system. |
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the boundary of an advancing mass of warm air.
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in particular the leading edge of the warm sector of a low-pressure system.
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17. Stationary fronts
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a pair of air masses.
neither of which is strong enough to replace the other. |
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18. Occluded front
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a composite front produced by occlusion.
formed when a cold front overtakes a warmfront and forces |
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occurring and complex series of climatic changes affecting the equatorial Pacific region and beyond every few years, characterized by the appearance of unusually warm, nutrient-poor water off northern Peru and Ecuador, typically in late December.
Something i looked up online because i did not know what it means. |
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| a cooling of the water in the equatorial Pacific that occurs at irregular intervals and is associated with widespread changes in weather patterns complementary to those of El Niño, but less extensive and damaging in their effects. |
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21. Doppler effect
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an increase or decrease in the frequency of sound, light, or other waves as the source and observer move toward or away from each other.
I remember this definitiom because it reminds me of speedsters like the flash and quicksilver. |
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a layer in the earth's stratosphere at an altitude of about 6.2 miles containing a high concentration of ozone.
absorbs most of the ultraviolet radiation reaching the earth from the sun. |
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23. Greenhouse effect
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the trapping of the sun's warmth in a planet's lower atmosphere due to the greater transparency of the atmosphere to visible radiation from the sun than to infrared radiation emitted from the planet's surface..
This word reminds me of Mr. Geenleafs class aka greenhouse biology |
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24. Global Warming
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a gradual increase in the overall temperature of the earth's atmosphere.
generally attributed to the greenhouse effect caused by increased levels of carbon dioxide, chlorofluorocarbons, and other pollutants. |
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