Terms
The mass of air surrounding a planet.
What is atmosphere?
The most abundant gas in air
What is nitrogen?
The five major atmospheric layers.
What are mesosphere, exosphere, thermosphere, stratosphere, and troposphere?
In the troposphere, the temperature increases/decreases as the altitude increases.
What is decreases?
The transfer of heat energy by waves through air or empty space.
What is radiation?
What is Greenhouse effect?
This atmospheric gas is important for the body functions of many living things. Helps to carry out photosynthesis.
What is carbon dioxide?
Closest atmospheric layer to the Earth's surface.
What is the Troposphere?
This is caused by the constant movement and collisions of the gas particles that make up the atmosphere.
What is Earth's Atmospheric pressure?
The transfer of heat energy from molecule to molecule by contact.
What is conduction?
The force(weight) applied over a unit of area.
What is Pressure?
Oxygen and Carbon Dioxide are both important for.
What is life?
One of the ways Earth's atmosphere benefits life on Earth.
What is filtering out much of the harmful uv radiation before it reaches the Earth?
The region of the Earth's atmosphere that is mostly nitrogen and where most of our weather occurs.
What is Troposphere?
Define convection.
What is the transfer of heat energy through a liquid of gas by currents?
Energy that is transferred as a consequence of temperature differences.
What is Heat?
Water vapor, methane and carbon dioxide are this but nitrogen is not.
What is greenhouse gas?
The ozone layer is located in this atmospheric layer.
What is the Stratosphere?
True or False. Earth's atmosphere reflects all light back to space.
What is false?
A thermometer measures what?
What is the average speed of the molecules in a substance?
A measure of the energy of random motion in a substance's molecules.
What is Temperature?
What is carbon dioxide?
A very special area in the atmosphere that contributes to the aurora borealis and the aurora australis.
What is the Ionosphere?
Which location experiences lesser air pressure: the top of Mt. Everest or Mexico City?
What is the top of Mt. Everest?
A light display that can be seen in the Northern Hemisphere.
What is the Aurora Borealis?