Layers of the Atmosphere
This layer of the atmosphere is closest to Earth's surface and is where nearly all weather occurs.
What is the troposphere?
The three spheres involved when a bird builds a nest in a tree using twigs and grass.
What are biosphere, lithosphere/geosphere, and atmosphere?
The forms that water can be found as on Earth.
What is gas, liquid, and solid?
The essential resource that organisms may lose when a drought shrinks a lake, as well as their aquatic habitat.
What is water?
The school that Miss Klose goes to.
What is Auburn University?
This atmospheric layer contains most of the ozone that absorbs harmful ultraviolet radiation from the Sun.
What is the stratosphere?
The three spheres involved when water vapor condenses into clouds, and the clouds release snow onto a mountain.
What are atmosphere, hydrosphere, and lithosphere/geosphere?
The gas that makes up most of the atmosphere.
What is Nitrogen?
The process that is increased when removing trees from a steep hillside, which carries exposed soil into nearby rivers during storms.
What is erosion?
Auburn University's mascot.
Who is Aubie?
Although it is above the stratosphere, temperatures decrease with altitude in this layer, where most meteors burn up.
What is the mesosphere?
The two parts of the biosphere interacting when a rabbit eats a plant.
What are plants and animals?
The percentage of the atmosphere that is oxygen.
What is 21%?
The event that is most likely to occur when a town replaces a grassy field with concrete parking lots and during heavy rain, water flows into streets instead of soaking into the ground.
What is a flood?
The kind of animal that flies over our football stadium before a game.
What is an eagle?
Despite having extremely high temperatures, this layer would not feel hot to a person because its gas particles are so spread out.
What is the thermosphere?
The spheres involved when a dead tree decomposes, releasing carbon dioxide into the air and nutrients into the soil. Rain carries some of those nutrients into a nearby lake, where algae absorb them and multiply rapidly.
What are biosphere, atmosphere, lithosphere/geosphere, and hydrosphere?
The way that spheres interact.
What is recycling of natural resources?
The effects on the hydrosphere and biosphere when a region experiences several weeks without rain.
What is a decrease in available water and increased stress on plants and animals?
How we celebrate an Auburn football win.
What is rolling Toomer's?
A weather balloon rises through a region where temperature decreases with altitude, then enters a region where temperature increases with altitude due to the absorption of ultraviolet radiation. These are the two atmospheric layers it passes through, in order.
What are the troposphere and stratosphere?
The two interactions taking place for matter exchange when a volcanic eruption releases carbon dioxide, which is later absorbed by growing plants.
What is geosphere to atmosphere and atmosphere to biosphere?
Geosphere and atmosphere: Carbon dioxide moves from the volcano into the air.
Atmosphere and biosphere: Carbon dioxide moves from the air into the plant.
Oceans, glaciers, groundwater, the atmosphere, and living organisms are all examples of these parts of the Earth system that store matter, allowing it to move between spheres through processes such as evaporation, precipitation, and photosynthesis.
What are reservoirs?
A large forest is removed. Years later, the area has fewer animals, more soil washing into rivers, and less carbon dioxide being absorbed by plants. Explain how the original change caused these three consequences.
What is habitat loss reducing animal populations, less interception from trees, more exposed soil, and less carbon dioxide available?
The year the Kick Six happened.
What is 2013?