Vocabulary
The force that air puts on an object.
What is air pressure?
Which layer of the atmosphere do we live in? Which layer in the largest?
What is the troposphere? What is the exosphere?
The conditions in a localized region’s air today, tomorrow, or a few days from now.
What is weather?
The planet is heating up! This widespread climate change is called ______________________.
What is global warming?
This is the outermost layer of the atmosphere.
What is exosphere?
The mass of air around Earth.
What is the atmosphere?
Name ONE way the atmosphere makes life on this planet possible:
The average weather over many years in a location/region on Earth.
What is climate?
Water vapor, carbon dioxide, and methane gas in the air are known as ____________________.
What are greenhouse gasses?
A layer of the atmosphere that protects life on Earth by filtering out ultraviolet radiation from the Sun.
What is the stratosphere?
Substances that are discharged into the air, such as from engines and factories.
What are emissions?
Which gas makes up for 78% of the gasses in the atmophere?
What is nitrogen?
Earth’s warmest climate zone, located near the equator, where sunlight strikes the planet’s surface most directly.
What is the tropical zone?
Burning fossil fuels, such as coal, oil, and gas increases the amount of heat that the atmosphere traps. This is known as the _________________.
What is the greenhouse effect?
The layer of Earth’s atmosphere located beyond the troposphere; the layer that protects Earth from solar radiation.
What is the ozone layer?
The process by which heat is trapped inside Earth’s atmosphere by gases.
What is the greenhouse effect?
True of false: Air pressure increases as altitude increases.
What is false?
This zone has warm summers, mild springs and falls, and cold winters. It can be dry or humid.
What is the temperate zone?
Name two consequences of climate change:
The world’s average temperature has increased.
Extreme weather.
Droughts, or period of little to no rain, affect agriculture.
The ice-caps are melting, putting some polar bears at risk.
Giant glaciers are melting, and sea-levels are rising.
Meteors burn up in this layer of the atmosphere.
What is mesosphere?
An increase in the average temperature of Earth’s atmosphere and oceans, especially one great enough to change the climate.
What is global warming?
What do the wind and water cycle have in common?
What is... The wind and water rise and fall throughout the cycle based on hot and cold temperatures.
Earth's coldest climate zone, which has little precipitation.
What is the polar zone?
Name three things you can do to reduce climate change:
Reduce, reuse, recycle (3Rs) to help keep trash out of the landfill.
Reduce the burning of fossil fuels (oil, gas, and coal).
Be mindful of your water usage when showering, brushing teeth, washing dishes, etc…
Use an electric vehicle, carpool, bike, or walk to help reduce gasoline usage.
Add a rain barrel to your garden and compost food scraps.
Spacecrafts orbit this layer of the atmosphere.
What is the thermosphere?