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_______ is the amount of water vapor in the air expressed as a percentage of the

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Question

_______ is the amount of water vapor in the air expressed as a percentage of the saturation vapor pressure?

The amount of force exerted over a given area of surface is called atmospreric_______?

There is a strong positive correlation between rising atmospheric CO2 concentrations and ________.

The __________ is the temperature at which atmospheric water condenses.

In the NOrthern Hemisphere the summer______ occurs when solar rays fall directly on the Tropic of Cancer.

Rainfall is greater and the vegetation more dense on the windward side of a mountain range than on the leeward side where a (n) _________ is formed.

The winds formed between the equator and about 30 degrees of latitude blowing from the northeast in the Northern Hemisphere and Southeast in the southern Hemisphere are referred to as________.

With increasing altitude air density _________

Air masses are deflected to the __________ in the Northern Hemisphere.

Carbon dioxide and ________ are the major gases in the atmosphere that absorb energy from the sun.

The transformation of water from a liquid to a gaseous state is referred to as ____________

Most organisms live in habitats that provide specific conditions or a (n) __________that may be very different from regional weather patterns.

The absorption and re-radiation of longwave radiation by gases in the atmosphere is called the ___________.

The temperature humidity precipitation wind cloudiness and other atmospheric conditions that occurs at a specific place and time are referred to as ____________.

Aa period of cooling that lasted from approximately the mid-14th to the mid-19th century is referred to as the _____________.

The narrow region near the equator where trade winds meet is referred to as the _______.

During an El NIO event the waters of the eastern Pacific Ocean are unusually_________

The long term average pattern of weather at local regional or global scales is referred to as ____________.

In the southern Hemisphere oceanic gyres circulate in a (n) ________ direction.

Explanation / Answer

1. Relative Humidity

2. Pressure

3. Global temparature

4. Dew point

5. Summer Solstice

6. Rain Shadow

7.Trade wind

8. Decreases

9. Right hand side (clockwise)

10. Water vapour

11. Vaporization

12. Environment

13. Green house effect

14. Climate

15. Little ice age

16. Intertropical convergence zone

17. Wrm and poor in nutrient

18. Climate

19. Anticlockwise