Environmental chapter 15 – Flashcards

Climate is a description of ____________ weather conditions.

The earth's earliest atmosphere was probably composed mainly of __________, which has/have since largely dissipated into space.

Elements such as _______ were added to the Earth's early atmosphere through _____________.

Aerosols are

The two main gases making up the lower atmosphere are

The atmospheric zone where most weather events occur is the

The correct sequence of atmospheric zones upward from the earth's surface is

The different layers of the atmosphere are kept from mixing by

The Ozone Hole that causes concern among scientists and the public is an ozone depletion in the

In the diagram above, which layer has have a rapid drop in temperature with increasing altitude.

In the diagram above, which layer has the highest concentration of ozone.

In the diagram above, which layer has the most mixing air?

Heat in the atmosphere comes from

Isolation is a term that means

albedo is a term describing the Earth's

Which of the following would have the highest albedo?

Eventually all the energy that reaches the Earth's surfaces is

Energy absorbed at the Earth's surface is radiated back to space in the form of?

Much of the ultraviolet light from the sun is absorbed by __________ as it passes through the atmosphere.

The green house effect in the atmosphere occurs because

the phenomenon causing the green effects is that _______ in the lower atmosphere selectively absorbs re radiated _______ radiation.

Convection currents in the atmosphere are driven by

When an area of the earth's surface becomes very hot, the air above it.

when cool, dry air sinks from the upper atmosphere towards the Earth's surface, it is

Rising, expanding air masses create a region of

intense sunlight causes a band of hot, rising air laden with evaporated water near the equator. This moisture then falls because

A band of desert rings the Earth at about 23 degrees north and south latitude because these are regions of

The Coriolis effect is caused by the

Due to the influence of the ________ in the month of january your flight from Chicago to the United Kingdom will be ______ than the return trip from the United kingdom to Chicago

Monsoons occur over india when air heated over the Indian subcontinent and the Indian ocean

A westward flowing wind is called a _______ due to direction _______.

The boundary between two air masses of different temperature and density is known as a

A cold front is a situation in which cold air

As a cold front advances, the warm air is forced to

Narrow, violent bands of rain and storms are characteristic of

If you see high wispy cirrus clouds with layers of other clouds in a wedge shape, you can expect _____ due to an ______.

Hurricanes are powered by

why don't storms over land have as much energy as storms over oceans?

Which of the following events is not part of the explanation of how tornadoes form?

Milankovitch cycles involve the periodic _______ and could be responsible for ________ weather changes.

when el nino occurs every three to seven years, a mass of warm pacific water that is usually pushed westward by trade wins

As far as we are currently aware, who were the first people to notice the el nino southern oscillation cycle?

Proponents of climate change say that given what we know about the probability of the greenhouse effect the best thing to do is

How would you describe the correlation between atmospheric carbon dioxide and mean Antarctic temperature

at 200,000 years before present, the mean Antarctic temperature is approximately

How much higher is atmospheric CO2 today, than it was at its previous maximum?