Gases in the atmosphere and air pollution
Air pressure
Layers of the atmosphere
Energy in the atmosphere
Heat transfer
100
Pollution that occurs indoors.
What is indoor pollution?
100
A tool that measures air pressure.
What is a berometer?
100
The fifth layer of the atmosphere.
What is Ionisphere?
100
Wavelengths that are shorter than violet light.
What is ultraviolet radiation?
100
The direct transfer of heat from one substance to another that is touching.
What is conduction?
200
A compound of oxygen,formed when exhaust pollutants react with sunlight.
What is the definition of ozone?
200
The force pushing on an area or surface.
What is air pressure?
200
The layer of the atmosphere that contains life.
What is a carecteristic of the layer troposphere?
200
A form of energy with wavelengths that are longer than red light.
What is infeared radiation?
200
The transfer of Heat in a moving substance.
What is convection?
300
A layer of the upper atmosphere that protects people from the effects of to much ultraviolet radiation.
What is the ozone layer?
300
An air tight metal chamber.
What is aneroid barometer?
300
The sixth layer of the atmosphere.
What is exosphere?
300
Energy from the sun that travels through space.
What is radiation?
300
The release and transfer of energy in wavelengths of heat and light.
What is radiation?
400
A thick brownish haze formed when certain gases in the air react in sunlight.
What is photocemical smog?
400
The amount of mass in a given volume of air.
What is density?
400
The layer of atmosphere is stratosphere.
What is the layer of the atmosphere that has an altitude of 12-50km?
400
A form of energy that can travel through space.
What is electromagnetic waves?
400
Radiation convection and conduction.
What is the three ways heat energy is transferred?
500
A change to the atmosphere that has harmful effects.
What is a pollutant?
500
A barometer that consists of a glass tube open at the bottom end and partially filled with mercury.
What is a Mercury barometer?
500
50-80km.
What is tha altitude of the mesosphere?
500
Reflection of light in all directions.
What is scattered?
500
Convection currents.
What is the atmosphere mainly heated by?
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