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| What produces a variety of weather? |
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| Combination of earth's motions and energy from the sun |
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| what climate based on? pg.476 |
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| climate is based on observation of weather that have been collected over many years. climate helps describe a place or region. |
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| what is air a mixture of? pg.477 |
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| air is a mixture of different gases and particles each with its own physical properties. the composition of air varies from time to time and place to place. |
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| what two gases make up 99 percent of a dry air? pg.477 |
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| Nitrogen and oxygen make up 99 percent of the volume of clean, dry air. |
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| what gas play a significant role in heating the atmosphere? |
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| carbon dioxide is an active absorbed of energy of energy given off by earth. |
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| what is the source of all clouds and precipitation? |
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| Water vapor is the source of all clouds and precipitation. |
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| what are some particles that remain suspended for long periods of time? |
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| sea salts from breaking waves, fine solid blown into the air, smoke and soot from fire, pollen & microorganisms lifted by the wind. |
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| when do oxygen atoms split into single atoms of oxygen? |
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| they split when they absorb ultraviolet radiation emitted |
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| what does the ozone absorb? |
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| ozone absorb harmful UV radiation from the sun. |
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| what accounts for nearby half the primary pollutants by weight? |
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| emission from transportation vehicles. |
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| what are secondary pollutants? |
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| they are not emitted directly into the air. |
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| what are photo chemical reactions? |
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| reaction triggered by strong sunlight. |
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| what is atmospheric pressure? |
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| atmospheric pressure is simply the weight of the air above. |
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| how many layer is in the atmosphere divide into. |
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| in what layer do most weather phenomena occurs? |
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| where does most energy that drives weather and climate come from? |
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| what creates wind and drives the ocean's currents? |
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| it is the unequal heating of earth that creates wind and drives the ocean currents. |
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| rotation is the spinning of earth about its axis. |
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| revolution is the movement of earth in it orbit around the sun. |
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| what are the degrees the earth is tilted? |
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| what is the length of daylight determined by? |
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| it is determined by earth's position in orbit. |
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| what can radiant energy travel through? |
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| radiant energy can travel through the vacuum of space. |
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| do hot or cold objects radiant more energy? |
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| hotter objects radiate more total energy per unit area than colder objects do. |
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| reflection occurs when light bounce off an objects. |
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| does land or water heat to higher temperature faster? |
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| land heats more rapidly and to higher temperature than water. |
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| what is the coast called in which winds blow from the ocean onto the shore? |
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| albedo is the fraction of the total radiation that is reflected by any surface. |
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| What does the extent of cloud cover influence? |
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| by reducing the amount of incoming solar radiation, the maximum temperatures on a cloud. |
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| what type of lines connects points of the same temperature? |
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