Weather and Climate

The atmosphere is made up mostly of what gas?

• Oxygen

• Nitrogen

• Carbon Dioxide

• Water Vapor

What is the measure of the force with which molecules push on a surface?

• atmosphere

• air pressure

• nitrogen

• temperature

What are the four layers of the Earth's atmosphere from the closest to Earth's surface to the farthest away?

Where in the Earth's atmosphere does almost all of the Earth's carbon dioxide, water vapor, clouds, air pollution, weather, and life-forms exist?

• mesosphere

• troposphere

• stratosphere

• thermosphere

What is the transfer of energy as electromagnetic waves?

• convection

• atmosphere

• radiation

• energy

What is the transfer of energy as heat through a material?

• radiation

• convection

• thermal conduction

• atmospheric heating

The transfer of thermal energy by the circulation or movement of a liquid or gas?

• radiation

• convection

• thermal energy

• the sun

The gradual increase in average global temperature?

• global warming

• radiation

• greenhouse gases

• conduction

The movement of air caused by differences in air pressure?

• wind

• rain

• snow

• the ocean

The apparent curving of the path of a moving object from an otherwise straight path due to the Earth's rotation?

• polar esterlies

• trade winds

• Coriolis effect

• westerlies