Key Terms
Key Terms Too
Gases
Layers of the Atmosphere
Short Answer
100
person who studies weather
What is meteorologist?
100
The instrument used to measure air pressure
What is barometer?
100
A gas found in proteins. It builds and repairs cells.
What is nitrogen?
100
Weather occurs in this layer. It also contains most of the atmosphere's mass.
What is troposphere?
100
The two types of smog
What is london-type and photochemical?
200
The daily conditions of our atmosphere
What is weather?
200
A combination of smoke and fog
What is smog?
200
A gas that helps us to breathe and helps things burn.
What is oxygen?
200
This has the ozone layer. It blocks the sun's UV Rays.
What is stratosphere?
200
The two types of barometers
What is mercury and aneroid?
300
A form of oxygen, three atoms instead of two
What is ozone?
300
The amount of mass given in a volume of air
What is density?
300
A gas that gives us our weather
What is water vapor?
300
This layer burns up meteors. It is the middle layer.
What is mesosphere?
300
What the EPA does for us
What is provides stricter regulations and improves transportation?
400
Harmful substances in the air
What is pollutants?
400
The elevation above sea level
What is altitude?
400
A gas that is used by plants and traps in heat.
What is carbon-dioxide?
400
This layer has the northern lights (aurora borealis). Radio waves are bounced back to earth from here.
What is ionosphere?
400
Where most of our air pollution comes from
What is transportation?
500
Pressure caused by the weight of a column of air on an object
What is air pressure?
500
The layers of gases that surround earth
What is atmosphere?
500
The gases in our atmosphere
What is nitrogen, oxygen, water vapor, and carbon-dioxide?
500
Satellites orbit here. It is also known as the outer most layer.
What is exosphere?
500
Provides air to breathe, protects us from being hit by meteoroids, and protects from radiation.
What our atmosphere does for us?
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