Standing near a campfire, you feel warmth on your skin before the surrounding air has heated up. This transfer of heat is mainly:
Why does water boil at a lower temperature on top of a tall mountain than at sea level?
You compress a fixed amount of air into a smaller volume, with no heat escaping. Its temperature will:
A parcel of air near the ground warms up. What happens to its density, and what does that make it do?
Two cities sit at the same temperature, but City A is at sea level and City B is at 3,000 meters. Compared to City A, the air in City B is:
The atmosphere is fairly transparent to incoming sunlight, but the greenhouse effect happens because it is more:
On a weather map, tightly packed isobars over a region indicate:
When water evaporates from a puddle, what happens to the surrounding air's temperature, and why?
Seen from the ground, wind tends to curve rather than flow in a straight line from high to low pressure. Why?
Wind exists, fundamentally, because air moves from areas of:
