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layer extending and average of 12 km above Earths surface

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tropospher

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occurs when ari temperature increases with altitude and the air becomes stable

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temperature inversion

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natural process in which certain gases in the atmospher warm a planet as they absorb and emit infrared radiation

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greenhouse effect

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how are the atmosher layers devided?

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difference of composition and temperature

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what gass makes up the morgorary of the atmospher

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nitrogen at 78%

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which gass makes up 21% of the atmospher

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oxygen at 21%

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what is the remaning 1% of atmospher? the morgrady of theses gasses?

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trace gasses/ Argon

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within the troposphere does the temperature increas or decreas?

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decrease going up

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who many layrs ar ein the atomsphere

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5

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what are the names of the lyers from the serface up?

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tropospher stradosphere, meosphere, thermalsphere,exosphere

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which layer is the ozone fond in

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stradosphere

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withint stradosphehere doestemp increas or decreas

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increas

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does temperture increas or decreas in the mesosphere

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the lower mesosphere decreas higher mesophere (80km) invcreas

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do the thrmosphere and exosphere impact weather?

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no

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where does 100% of solar radiation come from

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sun

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what percent of solar radiation is obsorbed by nearths serface

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50%

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what percent of sloar radiation is refletive of of earths surface`

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5%

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what percent is absorbed by particals in the atmosphere

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20%

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what percentagem of solar radiation is reflective by clods and other particals?

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25%

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what are the 3 basic clod types

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stratus, cumulus, cirrus

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discrib stratus clods

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layered sheet-like clods

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discrib cumulus clods

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puffy

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discrib cirrus clods

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wispy high-altitude

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what are all the steps of the water cycle

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percipitation, runoff, condensation, evaparation, transpirtation

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narrow band of fast-moving, high-altitude air
jet stream
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apparent deflection of an object due to earth's rotation
coriolis effect
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large volume of air with uniform moisture and temperature throughout
air mass
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aif messes interact in zones
weather front
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who many jet streams are therer in the world?
4
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who many pressure system are there?
2
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what are low pressure system also called
a Low (L)
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which derection does a Low go
counter-clock wise
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what reasslts for the Low pressure system?
ionair rises causing cloud formation and preciptation
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what is a high pressure-system also called
High (H)
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Witvh derection does a high pressure-system truns
clockwise
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what is a resalt of this pressure system
air to sinck causing clear skys
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what are the 4 wearther fronts?
cold, warm, sationary, occluded
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how are clod fronts creatied
when cold air forces warm air upward in fast and chaotic manner
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who are cold fronts shown on the news
blue riangles
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how are warm frots creatied
warm air fwntuly above colf air
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how are warm fronts shown on the news
red circels
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how is stationary front formed
cold and warm air masses meet and neither front advances
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how are stationarty front shown on the news
red half cirls and blue triangles rotating top and bottom of line
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How is occluded front formed
a fast-moving cold front overtskes a slow moving warm front
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how do the news show this
with purple half circels and triangles rotating
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cliamte that is strongly affected by an ocean
Maritime climat
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climate that is not directly affected by an ocean
Continental climate
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a breeze the blows from over the water toward land in the afternoon when the land is warmer than the water
sea breeze
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What is climate
Long term average of weather conditions
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what is weather
day to day outside conditions
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What are the five spheres that make up earths system
Atmosphere, Cryosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere, biosphere
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what is the atomsphere
air around us
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what is the biosphere
everything organic
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what is hydrosphere
liquid water
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what is lithosphere
earths outermost layer
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what is cryosphere
frozen water ( snow, ice, glaciers)
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what is the prymaer facter that influences climate at any given location
Latituded
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where is solar radiation most intense on Earth's serface?
equater
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at what dergrees do the sunraise hit the tropical zones?
90 drgeres
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what dergrees do the sunraise hit earth at the tinter zones?
45 dregers
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what degrees do the r\sunraise hit the poler zones
30 drgres
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whitch zone is lamar CO going to be located in?
temperet
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what facters determan climate
precipitation, Lattiud, water
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what is the windward side conditions like?
air cool and wet, montains have lots of plants
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what are the conditions like on the leeward side
conditions dry and trees only grow past a scerten part
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what is a land breez
thw wind blows from the land to water when its night
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whitch climangt zone and what type of veucation does Colorado have
climate- warm semi-arid Veucation- grassland
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increase in the average temperatures of earth's near-surface air and oceans
global warming
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warming of the Pacific oceans off the coast of western South America that occurs every 3 to 10 years
El Nino
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occurs when trade winds in the Pacific are unusually strong and surface water is colder then normal
La Nina
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what are two seasonal changes that earth's climate undergoes
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how do seasonal changeces occur?
how earth revolvs around the sun
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whitch hemisphere experienc summer
the hemisphere the is tilled to sun
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what was the porid of time called when most of earth's serface was covered in ice
ice age
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apout how long ago did the words climate reach its cerent patner
3,000
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what are some factersz that can cause climant chang
shap of the orbat, distance from the sun, the tillt of the axes
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how can humans chang the climant change
energy consuption, deforeststation, industral, angucaltral practices
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what is deforestaition
clearing of larg areas os forest land
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how does deforestation afecct climate change
takes oxign

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