HOMOSPHERE
This is the weather layer of the homosphere.
What is the troposphere?
This "sphere" lies at the upper portions of the Mesosphere & lower portions of the Thermosphere. Gases are ionized here.
What is the ionosphere?
A low concentration of ozone centered over Antarctica that shows up a few months a year.
What is the ozone hole or hole in the ozone?
Places where the composition of air is the same at any level.
What is the homosphere?
What is the definition of atmosphere?
The mass of air surrounding a planet.
In this layer, meteors enter out atmosphere and re burned up.
What is the mesosphere?
Glowing regions of brilliant colors that move across the night sky caused by high energy collisions between ionized particles in the ionsphere.
What are auroras?
A man-made substance connected to the ozone hole.
What is CFCs or the Chlorofluorocarbons?
Place where the composition of air changes at different levels.
What is the heterosphere?
What is the definition of atmospheric pressure?
The pressure exerted by the atmosphere on all objects within it.
In this layer, there are no weather phenomena, but jet streams are found in its lower portion.
What is the stratosphere?
Many space shuttle missions happen here and this level was named for its high energy bu low temperature.
What is the thermosphere?
A weather phenomenon around the South Pole responsible for sending chlorine into the ozone.
What is polar vortex?
Instrument used to measure atmospheric pressure
What is the barometer?
What is the definition of jet stream?
Narrow bands of high-speed winds that circle the earth, blowing from west to east.
In these 2 layers, temperatures decrease as altitude increase.
What are troposphere & mesosphere?
This level is the last level before interplanetary space.
What is the exosphere?
World leaders signed this treaty that banned CFCs in an effort to stop depletion of the ozone.
What is the Montreal Protocol?
The pressure exerted by the atmosphere on all objects.
What is atmospheric pressure?
What is the definition of heat?
Energy that is transferred as a consequence of temperature differences.
In this level, temperatures increase as altitude increases.
What is stratosphere?
These 2 layers of the atmosphere can be considered "outer space."
What are the thermosphere and exosphere?
The ozone layer is significantly lower over the Antarctica during these months.
What is August-November?
The average amount of atmospheric pressure at sea level exerts this many pounds per square inch.
What is 14.7 pounds?
What is the definition of temperature?
A measure of the energy of random motion in a substance's molecules.