Weather Review

Question 1

Define tropopause

Answer 1

The boundary between the troposphere and the stratosphere

Question 2

What is the composition of the atmosphere

Answer 2

N2-78.084 O2-20.946 Ar-0.9340

Question 3

Define weather

Answer 3

The conditions outside considered from day to day; compared with climate

Question 4

Define climate

Answer 4

Weather conditions of an area averaged over many years

Question 5

Explain why Manitoba has such drastic weather changes

Answer 5

Because we sit on the top of the earth the earths tilt effects us much more than other places so we get very hot summers and very cold winters

Question 6

What would happen to the earth if it had the same rotation speed as the moon?

Answer 6

Parts of the sun would bake from long periods of sun exposure other parts would freeze from no exposure

Question 7

What are the five main layers of the atmosphere?

Give a brief description of each

Listed from lowest to highest

Answer 7

Troposphere (high density,contains moisture), stratosphere (contains ozone), mesosphere (extremely low temperature) , thermosphere (electromagnetic waves absorbed here), exosphere (spaceeee)

Question 8

Perihelion, apenlion

Answer 8

Closest furthest