Friday, December 5, 2008

Cold Front: Cold fronts happen when fast moving warm air smashes into cold air. Cold air has more mass then hot air so it stays toward the ground, while hot air rises above the large amount of cold air. The warm air eventually cools to the temperature of water vapor droplets.

Warm Front: A slow moving amount of warm air collides with the rising cool air turning the slow moving warn air into evaporation. Turning it into rain causing slight small storms or rains.




Stationary Front:
A stationary front is when warm air and cool air soon meet but doesn't pass each other and stays together where they touch. Cool air moves back as hot air gets bigger, then the warm air does the same thing. repeatedly, untill soon forms clouds and rains.




Occluded Front
: An Occluded front is where warm air gets caught in between dense cool air and more less dense cool air. The most dense air pushes the other cool air to move it upward, causing the warm air to get cooler. To cuase snow, rain, and clouds.

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Atmosphere Essay

Link to the Essay is the link above.

Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Acid Rain


Acid Rain is only slightly acidic.Acid Rain is formed by the burning coal that have a lot of sulfur that produces a lot of sulfur oxides. It is composed of oxygen and sulfur. Acid Rain forms when Nitrogen oxides and sulfur oxides combine with water in the air to form nitric acid and sulfuric acid. The issue is that acid rain can destroy trees and buildings as well as lakes and ponds. to approve the conditions of acid rain pollution must be controlled by focusing on ways to reduce the amount of pollutants coming from cars and factories. The way students can contribute is to get their parents to car pool and to recycle.

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Earth's Atmosphere

Earth is different from the moon and other planets because of its atmosphere. The atmosphere is a heat trapping blanket that keeps in all the heat that earth has because, of the sun. People believe that there once was life on the planets and moon, but because of the biosphere the earth has and other planets don't, nothing lives on the moon or other planets! Earths is composed with a lot of other gases like nitrogen, oxygen, carbon dioxide, water vapor and other gases that the moon and other planets do not have. Earth is different from the moon and other planets because of varied reasons.