Environmental Science
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- When air is cooled below it's saturation level, water vapor:
- The amount of heat needed to raise the temperature of 1 gram of a substance 1 degree Celsius is known as:
- When water vapor changes to a liquid, water vapor molecules release energy called:
- Located next to red on the electromagnetic spectrum and having a longer wavelength is:
- When air expands the gas molecules move less rapidly, and the air cools. This is called:
- Warm air can hold more water vapor than colder air.
- Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere are:
- The only mechanism that can transfer heat through the vacuum of space is:
- When heat is released or absorbed as water changes from one state of matter to another this is called:
- On the electromagnetic spectrum, the energy next to violet with shorter wavelengths is called:
- The Earth's atmosphere has always contained oxygen.
- Which one of the following is the most abundant gas in the atmosphere?
- When do the vertical rays of the Sun strike the Tropic of Cancer?
- The temperature decreases as you gain altitude, this is called:
- This atmospheric component absorbs damaging ultraviolet radiation from the sun
- A psychrometer is used to determine which weather variables?
- Dark gray cloud that blankets the sky and generates rain
- What is an instrument commonly used to measure wind speed
- A body that orbits a planet or asteroid as they orbit the Sun.
- A collection of liquid water droplets and or ice crystals suspended in the atmosphere anddense enough to be visible