Composition of Atmosphere
This gas makes up 78% of the Earth's atmosphere
What is Nitrogen?
Name one greenhouse gas.
What is CO2, ozone, methane or water vapor?
What is closest?
The lowest layer of the atmosphere, where weather occurs
What is the Troposphere?
What is a weather event that creates white out conditions where snow is moving in high winds.
What is a blizzard?
Approximately what percentage of the atmosphere does oxygen make up?
What is 21%?
The glass of the Earth's "greenhouse" is the
What is atmosphere?
Air pressure _______________ with altitude.
What is decreases?
The stratosphere contains _____________, which protects us from the Sun's radiation.
What is ozone?
Oxygen and Nitrogen together make up this percentage of air in the atmosphere
What is 99%?
The greenhouse effect warms the Earth because of these
What are trapped gases?
Another word for altitude
What is elevation?
Air pressure is the lowest in this layer.
What is Exosphere?
When there is a period of lower than normal levels of precipitation
What is a drought?
What is the name for gases that make up 1% of the atmosphere's air?
What are trace gases?
What are two ways that humans can increase CO2 in the atmosphere?
What is burn fossil fuels, breathe, drive cars, produce things in factories?
Temperature DECREASES with altitude in these two layers
What is the Troposphere and Mesosphere?
The coldest layer of the atmosphere
What is the mesosphere
The recent hurricane in Jamaica
Name one gas that makes up a portion of 1% of the atmosphere's air.
What is ozone, Argon, water vapor or CO2?
What would happen on Earth without the greenhouse effect?
What is the drastic cooling of the Earth? (we would no longer survive)
Temperature INCREASES with altitude in these two layers
Where satellites and the ISS are located
What is the thermosphere?
Compare and contrast hurricanes and tornadoes
Hurricanes form over water, tornadoes form over land. Hurricanes are much larger, tornadoes are smaller. Hurricanes are slower moving, tornadoes end faster.
Both produce strong winds and cause destruction.