Weather and Climate Concepts

Front

What is Altitude?

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How high in the sky you are (elevation)

Front

Troposphere, Stratosphere, Mesosphere, Thermosphere are all what?

Back

Layers of the atmosphere

Front

Tropopause, Stratopause and Mesopause are what?

Back

Breaks between the layers of the atmosphere

Front

What layer of the atmosphere contains all water vapor?

Back

Troposphere

Front

What layer of the atmosphere contains the ozone layer?

Back

Stratosphere

Front

As altitude increases through the troposphere, what happens to temperature, pressure and water vapor?

Back

They all decrease

Front

What is the boundary between the troposphere and stratosphere?

Back

Tropopause

Front

What is the boundary between the Stratosphere and Mesosphere?

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Stratopause

Front

What is the boundary between Mesosphere and Thermosphere?

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Mesopause

Front

What is the #1 reason why the "pauses" are located where they are in the atmosphere?

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Temperature