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What is the atmosphere? correct answers layer of gases that surround the Earth What are the most abundant gases in the atmosphere? correct answers Nitrogen, Oxygen, Argon What are permanent gases in the atmosphere? correct answers gases that remain constant (nitrogen and oxygen) What are va...

What was the primary source of gases in the atmosphere? correct answers Outgassing Outgassing (definition) correct answers the release of volcanic gases from the Earth's interior What are volcanic gases made of? correct answers carbon dioxide, water, nitrogen, and other gases What process ...

Trace gases that have a profound effect on weather and climate? correct answers water vapor, carbon dioxide, ozone, and others Atmosphere is made up mostly of what two gasses and what percentage? correct answers Nitrogen 78% and Oxygen 21% The Gas Law correct answers P/DT=R R in the gas law...

Convert 15 degree Celsius to Fahrenheit temperature. correct answers 59F standard lapse rate is about ______ degrees C per 1000 feet. correct answers 2 The most frequent type of ground or surface based temperature inversion is that which is produced by correct answers the movement of colder ai...

Which way does wind shift in a low pressure system? correct answers Clockwise (veering) Which way does wind shift in a high pressure system? correct answers Anticlockwise (backing) What weather is associated with a trough? correct answers Rain, cloud and storms What whether is associated wi...

To be classified as fog what must visibility reduce to correct answers 1000m or less. Between 1-5000m its classed as mist Explain radiation fog correct answers Earth cools at night and loses terrestrial radiation. Air will be cooled to the dew point and fog will form. What are the conditions n...

what is heat energy? correct answers it is measured in calories. one calorie is the heat necessary to raise the temperature of one gram of water one degree Celsius in order for water to change state heat muse be... correct answers absorbed or released what is sublimation? correct answers solid...

This type of front is a complex frontal system that forms when a cold front overtakes a warm front correct answers Occluded front We can make a statement now that there is a 40% chance that Lincoln, NE will experience a white Christmas this year (1' of snow or more on the ground.) What type of f...

Weather correct answers refers to the state of the atmosphere (physical conditions) at any given time or place Climate correct answers describes the "average weather" of a region The standard averaging period is 30 years according to the WMO What is the most abundant gas in the atmosphere? ...

Weather correct answers The condition of the air, or the atmosphere of our planet. It is a minute-by-minute changes in atmosphere. Climate correct answers long-term patterns of temperature, humidity, and amount of sunshine. There are several types of climates in the world. Water Cycle correct ...

natural hazard correct answers Any natural process that is a potential threat to human life and property natural disaster correct answers great destruction or loss of life caused by natural forces rather than by human actions Catastrophe correct answers an event resulting in great loss and mis...

A weakness of visible satellite imagery is that it is basically useless ________. Because of this, often ______ is used instead. correct answers at night, Infrared imagery In evaluating a map with upper-air, surface, satellite, and radar data, the lines connecting points of equal pressure are cal...

What gas could be found in the atmosphere with a concentration greater than 1%? correct answers water vaper (H2O) In a volume of air near the earthss surface _____ occupies 78% and ____ nearly 21% correct answers nitrogen, oxygen What is considered a variable gas in the earths atmosphere? corr...

Suppose that the temperature of the troposphere decreased by 10˚F. Which of the following variables would decrease? a) air density b) air pressure c) tropopause height d) average kinetic energy of molecules correct answers b, c, d Which below is not considered a greenhouse gas? a) carbon di...