Transcript Chapter 12 Atmosphere Review - OG

Chapter 12 Atmosphere Review
• What is the cause of wind?
A. The greenhouse effect
B. Unequal heating of Earth’s surface
C. The release of latent heat was water changes
states
• Sea breezes form during the day when
A. A high-pressure area forms over the land
B. The land heats faster than nearby ocean
C. The ocean heats faster than the nearby land
• What does the Coriolis effect do to winds in
the Northern Hemisphere?
A. Causes them to blow faster
B. Causes them to reverse direction
C. Causes them to turn to the right
• Why do land breezes blow from the land to
sea at night?
A. The land is colder
B. Land cools faster than nearby water
C. An area of low pressure forms over the land
Prevailing winds, jet streams, trade winds,
polar easterlies
5. Steady east – west winds that flow towards
the equator
6. Winds that blow from west to east between
30 and 60 degrees
7. Cold winds that blow from east to west near
the poles
8. Narrow bands of high winds near the top of
the troposphere
• In the area of the atmosphere that is closest
to Earth’s surface, the transfer of thermal
energy by collisions between particles of
matter occurs.
• Conduction
• About one-quarter of the Sun’s radiation does
not reach Earth because clouds and small
particles in the air _____________ solar
waves.
• reflect
• Visible light, ultra violet light, and infrared
radiation waves are types of electromagnetic
waves that transfer thermal energy from the
sun.
• Radiation
• Close to Earth’s surface, where conduction
occurs, the transfer of thermal energy by the
movement of matter from one place to
another can also occur
• Convection
• The formation of thunderstorms depends on
the strength or weakness of circulating air
motions of the atmosphere
• stability
• A layer of cooler air near Earth’s surface is
trapped by a layer of warmer air when a
condition in the troposphere that involves a
temperature increase with altitude occurs
• Temperature inversion
• The Sun’s energy reaches _______ through a
process known as radiation.
• Earth / Earth’s surface
List the layers of the atmosphere from
nearest to furthest from Earth
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Troposphere
Stratosphere
Mesosphere
Thermosphere
Exosphere
Match the layer to the correct term
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Exosphere
Thermosphere
Mesosphere
Stratosphere
Troposphere
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Small meteors
Airplanes
Satellites
Clouds
Weather balloons
• Earth’s atmosphere keeps the planet’s
temperature within a certain range
• True
• Oxygen is the most common gas in the
atmosphere
• False
• The troposphere’s ozone layer protects organisms
from the Sun’s harmful rays.
• False
• The mesosphere and thermosphere protect
Earth from meteorites
• True
• All weather happens in the thermosphere
• False
• Air pressure decreases with altitude in the
troposphere
• True
• The exosphere is the furthest from Earth
• True
• Auroras occur when ions from the Sun strike
air molecules, causing them to emit vivid
colors
• True
• Where do auroras occur?
• Ionosphere – within the meso/thermosphere