Describe the difference between meteors and meteorites
What will be an ideal response?
ANSWER: When small pieces of rock from space enter the atmosphere at high speeds, friction with the air molecules heats the surrounding air to white-hot incandescence, forming meteors, or what we sometimes call shooting stars. When a large rock enters Earth's atmosphere, it heats up due to friction with the air and forms a fireball that glows for a period of time before it either disintegrates or survives to strike the Earth. When an object is large enough to survive its passage through the atmosphere without burning up and colliding with Earth, it is called a meteorite.?
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List the temperatures and heat index categories you would experience if the temperature stayed a constant 35°C (95°F) but the relative humidity dropped from 90% down to 10%. List the temperatures and heat index categories at each drop of 10% relative humidity (90%, 80%, 70%…).
What will be an ideal response?
The clouds shown in Figure 4.14 are:a
cumulus.
b. stratocumulus.
c. altocumulus.
d. cirrocumulus
This chemical tightly binds to hemoglobin, blocking its ability to deliver oxygen to red blood cells
A) sulfur dioxide B) nitrogen dioxide C) sulfuric acid D) carbon monoxide
The most accurate computer models of global climate change indicate that in the next 50 years
A) all of the rainforests will be destroyed. B) growing seasons will get shorter. C) the world will warm up by about 2°C. D) regions of drought will instead experience flooding.