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Chapter 11.1 and 11.2 Vocab

Word Bank: latentheat, dewpoint, relativehumidity, saturation, humidity, temperatureinversion, convection, conduction, radiation, exosphere, thermosphere, mesosphere, stratosphere, troposphere
Across
Most of mass of atmosphere and where the weather occurs, temp drops as you go up
Transfer of thermal energy by the movement of heated material from one place to another
Air temp increases with altitude, has ozone layer
Amount of water vapor in the atmosphere at a given location on Earth's surface
An increase in temperature with height in the atmospheric layer
Extra thermal energy contained in water vapor compared to liquid water
Down
Low density makes the temperature go up to 2000 degrees Celcius
Outermost layer of atmosphere, least dense,
Transfer of thermal energy between objects when their atoms or molecules collide
Amount of water vapor in a volume of air relative to the amount of water vapor needed for that volume of air to reach saturation
When the amount of water vapor in a volume of air has reached the maximum amount
Temp decreases with altitude due to little low absorbed solar radiation
Transfer of thermal energy by electromagnetic waves
The temperature to which air must be cooled at a constant pressure to reach saturation