Environmental Science Questions
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At high altitudes, the air is thinner than it is on the ground since there is less __________.
__________ is the name for when ice crystals or water droplets fall out of the sky.
The __________ side of the mountain, where the water does not fall, is usually more arid than the windward side.
The __________ annual rainfall is located on the windward side of mountain ranges and equatorial regions.
The __________ cause for precipitation is the evaporation, convection, and cooling of water vapor.
Air in higher altitudes has __________ pressure.
Large currents of air that flow high above the surface of the earth
Narrow bands of high-speed winds that blow in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere are called
__________ forms when frozen raindrops are tossed around in colder and warmer layers of the atmosphere, moving up and down in the cloud collecting layers of ice crystals, snow, and water, forming larger and larger balls of ice before they fall to the ground.
Created by warmer, moist air rising in convection currents
__________ forms when water droplets are larger than 0.5 mm in diameter from merging with other droplets and falling when they get too heavy.
When the density of the air increases, the air pressure ____.
Interactions between solar radiation and the ionosphere cause
The number of satellites that the National Oceanic Atmospheric Association (NOAA) has.
the horizontal movement of air flowing parallel to the earths surface
__________ is very small drops of water similar to mist. It is very light, which causes it to fall slowly.
The instruments on a weather balloon are called __________.
Energy from the sun travels to Earth as
What kind of wind blows cool air from land to water
What is Solar radiation that is not reflected back into the atmosphere called