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| Characteristics of Atmosphere |
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| 6 main layers, protects us from harmful objects/ rays |
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| closest to Earth; we live in it; 7.5 mi, all weather occurs here |
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| still, leaves white trail |
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| coldest; meteoroids burn up here |
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| Thin air, lower region of thermosphere |
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| hottest layer, upper region of thermosphere |
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| What would mt. climbers have to do to prepare for an overnight stay? |
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| Face their tent flaps toward the valley because heat rises during the night from the valley that has been collecting it all day. |
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| How God uses oxygen to sustain his creation |
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| Animals, bacteria, microorganisms, and plants need it for respiraton |
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| Plants use it to create proteins all animals need. |
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| plants could not photosynthesize without it which would mean no oxygen from them |
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| If UV radiation is increased... |
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| It causes cataracts, sunburn: skin cancer later in life, plankton die, and animals who eat them will die. |
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| Water enters atmosphere through transpiration and the water vapor condenses into clouds. Then the water enters again through precipitation |
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| The ozone layer is important... |
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| Because it protects us from UV radiation |
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| cold, icy, have long winters, short summers |
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| Temperate regions have... |
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| 4 seasons, 30d- 60d N or S |
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| have long summers and short winters, 0d-30- N or S |
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| Amount of water vapor in the air when you feel hot or sticky |
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| Form on poles, colder than earth's surface |
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| Cloud seeding and how it works |
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| Clouds are seeded with crystals of dry ice which attrct water molecules which grow large enough to form rain or snow |
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| First stage of thunderstorm |
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| Cumulus stage: warm air rises from the ground that is warmer than its surroundings; the air forms a cumulus clound and air currents flatten the cloud into a thunderhead |
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| Mature stage: cumulus cloud grows and spreads out into an anvil shape, forming a cumulonimbus cloud, then the falling rain cools the air |
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| Final stage: Thunderstorm dies out as it uses up its supply of water vapor. |
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| Form when a cold air mass overtakes a warm one. The dense cold air lifts the warm air. |
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| Appear along cold fronts When warm air is moistm cumulus and cumulonimbus clouds form. These produce violent, but short lived storms. |
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| Area where cold air is sinking |
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| Sound that results from rapid expansion of air that accompanies a lightening strike. |
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| Eliectric discharge of energy from storm clouds |
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| Latitudes affect on daylight |
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| It depends on the tilt of the sun and where the sun lies |
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| warmer than coast, less rain |
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| Water Vapor, carbon Dioxide, and Ozone |
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| temperature over a long period of time |
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| day-to-day temperature changes |
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| charcterized by high rainfall, 40-75% of worlds species live here |
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| Colder side of mt, and gets more rain |
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| Not exposed to wind and weather/ side facing the wind |
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