Environmental Science Questions

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