Vocabulary
Energy Transfer
Make-up
Layers
Air Movement
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What is the thermosphere?

100
The three major types of heat (energy) transfer in the atmosphere.
What are radiation, conduction, and convection?
100
The most abundant element in the atmosphere.
What is nitrogen?
100
The bottom layer of the earth's atmosphere. This is also the layer that contains life.
What is the troposphere?
100
This is the area of the earth that receives the most sunlight and is therefore the warmest.
What is the equator?
200
This is the long term for CFC.
What is chlorofluorocarbon?
200
The tranfer of energy that occurs when molecules bump into one another, this is caused when objects touch.
What is conduction?
200
The second most abundant gas in the atmosphere.
What is oxygen?
200
The protective layer that keeps the sun's ultraviolet rays away from the earth's surface.
What is the ozone layer?
200
The term used to describe the apparant turning of the air caused by the spinning of the earth.
What is the coriolis effect?
300
This is the term that describes the water droplets that form when water vapor is cooled.
What is condensation?
300
The tranfer of energy by the flow of material in the atmosphere.
What is convection?
300
The brown haze that forms when pollutants attach to air molecules.
What is smog?
300
This is the outermost layer of the atmosphere. Satellites orbit here where there are very few molecules of air.
What is the exosphere?
300
The term used to describe the movement of wind from the west to the east in North America.
What is westerlies?
400
This is the term that describes the type of radiation tha tis given by the sun to the earth.
What is ultraviolet?
400
The transfer of energy from the sun to the earth via waves or rays.
What is radiation?
400
The term used to describe the amount of helium, xenon, methane, and hydrogen in the atmosphere.
What is trace?
400
The warmest of the layers of the atmosphere. It is the fourth layer from the bottom.
What is the thermosphere?
400
The term used to describe narrow bands of strong winds that blow in the upper troposphere.
What is the jet stream?
500
This is the term that is used to describe the movement of the air from the cool land over the warm water.
What is land breeze?
500
The direction in which the air flows during convection transfer.
What is warm up and cool down?
500
The approximate amount of water vapor that is in the earth's atmosphere.
What is 4%?
500
This layer is not a layer of the atmosphere but a collection of molecules that can be used to bounce radio waves.
What is the ionosphere?
500
The term used to describe the movement of the air from the sea to the land because the sea is cooler than the land.
What is sea breeze?
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