Mid Term Part 1

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Global winds generally

• are unpredictable.
• blow from specific directions over long distances.
• change directions from day to day.

Weather forecasting has improved recently in part because of

• Optiowidespread television reporting.
• fewer weather changes from year to year.
• improved data gathering and better computer technology.

The lowest and shallowest layer of the atmosphere is the

• troposphere.
• stratosphere.
• thermosphere.

The greenhouse effect is

• the process by which gases hold heat in the atmosphere.
• a gradual increase in the temperature of the atmosphere.
• the absorption of energy by clouds.

Heat transfer between two substances that are in contact is called

• thermal energy.
• radiation.
• conduction.

Two conditions are required for cloud formation: cooling of the air and

• the absorption of infrared energy.
• the presence of particles in the air.
• the influence of the Coriolis effect.

Earth’s rotation makes global winds curve. This is called the

• rotational effect.
• Coriolis effect.
• global effect.