Vocabulary
Atmosphere Layers
Atmosphere Gases
Mixture of information
Mystery
100
The process by which green plants and some other organisms use sunlight to synthesize foods from carbon dioxide and water. In plants, it generally involves the green pigment chlorophyll and generates oxygen as a byproduct.
Photosynthesis
100
The second layer of the atmosphere as you go upward.The stratosphere is stratified (layered) in temperature, with warmer layers higher and cooler layers closer to the Earth; this increase of temperature with altitude is a result of the absorption of the Sun's ultraviolet radiation by the ozone layer.
Stratosphere
100
Makes-up 78% of the atmospheric gases
Nitrogen
100
Where do UV rays come from?
The sun
100
What did this man discover?
The ozone layer
200
A process in living organisms involving the production of energy, typically with the intake of oxygen and the release of carbon dioxide from the oxidation of complex organic substances.
Respiration
200
Where nearly all weather conditions take place. It contains approximately 75% of the atmosphere's mass and 99% of the total mass of water vapour and aerosols.
Troposphere
200
Makes up 21% of atmospheric gases
Oxygen
200
The study of the Earth's atmosphere
Meteorology
200
What is this called?
A weather balloon
300
What is the biogeochemical transitions of oxygen atoms between different oxidation states in ions, oxides, and molecules through redox reactions within and between the spheres/reservoirs of the planet Earth?
Oxygen Cycle
300
A thin, atmosphere-like volume surrounding a planet or natural satellite where molecules are gravitationally bound to that body, but where the density is too low for them to behave as a gas by colliding with each other. The outermost layer of the atmosphere.
Exosphere
300
Mixture of gases that surrounds Earth
Atmosphere
300
What is "good up high, bad nearby"?
The ozone layer
300
Fill in the blank:
In 2013 a ________ named Felix Baumgartner went to the highest level of the stratosphere and jumped. He was 120,000 feet above the earth's surface.
Skydiver
400
What is the biogeochemical cycle by which nitrogen is converted into multiple chemical forms as it circulates among atmosphere, terrestrial, and marine ecosystems. The conversion of nitrogen can be carried out through both biological and physical processes.
The Nitrogen Cycle
400
The region of the atmosphere above the mesosphere and below the height at which the atmosphere ceases to have the properties of a continuous medium. It is characterized throughout by an increase in temperature with height.
Thermosphere
400
The warming of the surface and lower atmosphere of Earth that occurs when water vapor, carbon dioxide, and other gases absorb and reradiate thermal energy (heat)
The greenhouse effect
400
Measure of the force with which air molecules push on Earth, caused by Earth's gravitational pull
Air pressure
400
Fill in the blank:
20% of Earth’s oxygen is produced by the ________ rainforest
Amazon
500
What is the biogeochemical cycle by which carbon is exchanged among the biosphere, pedosphere, geosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere of the Earth. Carbon is the main component of biological compounds as well as a major component of many minerals such as limestone
The Carbon Cycle
500
The third major layer of the Earth's atmosphere, directly above the stratosphere and directly below the thermosphere. In this layer the temperature decreases as altitude increases. It the coldest layer.
Mesosphere
500
What Greenhouse gases are found in the atmosphere
Water vapor and carbon dioxide
500
The force that holds the Earth's atmosphere around Earth
Gravity
500
About how many minutes does it take for light from the Sun to reach the Earth?
About 8 minutes.
(It takes 8 minutes, 19 seconds for light to travel from the Sun to the Earth)