04 - Atmosphere T P D H Answers 3

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Name: _________________________ Date: _____________________ Block: ______

ATMOSPHERE:
The Relationship between Temperature, Pressure,
Density, and Humidity

A) Temperature
1. How does temperature change with altitude in the Troposphere?

2. When are the warmest/coolest hours of the day? Explain why.

3. When are the warmest/coolest months? Explain why.

4. Why do you get a bigger range of temperature change on land compared to over
water?

5. What is an isotherm?

B) Humidity
1. What is the hydrologic cycle? (pg. 499)

2. Define specific humidity.

3. Define relative humidity.


Name: _________________________ Date: _____________________ Block: ______

C) Density
1. What is density?

2. In the following boxes, draw particles to represent low density and high density.
a) low density b) high density

D) Air Pressure
1. Explain in your own words what air pressure is.
Air Pressure Demo:

2. What device do we use to measure air pressure?

3. What units do we use to measure air pressure?

4. What causes air pressure to change?

a. relationship between temperature and pressure:

_____ TEMPERATURE = _____ AIR PRESSURE

b. relationship between temperature and density:

_____ TEMPERATURE = _____ DENSITY

c. relationship between humidity and pressure:

_____ HUMIDITY = _____ AIR PRESSURE


Name: _________________________ Date: _____________________ Block: ______

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