Characteristics of atmosphere
Heating the earth
Climate change
Interesting facts
True or false
100
This is home to the aurora borealis and aurora australis.
What is Thermosphere?
100
Energy transferred between earths surface and the atmosphere
What is conduction, convection, and radiation?
100
Were does climate change occur?
What is troposphere and thermosphere?
100
Coldest layer of the atmosphere.
What is Mesosphere?
100
True or false when you go up in the troposphere dose it get colder?
true
200
This is where 'shooting stars' occur and where meteors break down. Also along with the stratosphere it is considered the 'middle atmosphere'
What is Mesosphere?
200
When radiation occurs when it has to go though.
What is stratosphere?
200
This term describes the human contribution to the Earths greenhouse effect
What is anthropogenic global warming?
200
85-500 km above the earths surfuce.
What is thermosphere?
200
true or false in the stratosphere do satelites and shuttles orbit earth?
false
300
Contains 99% of water vapor and 75% of all atmosphere gases.
What is Troposphere?
300
When you get sunburned
What is radiation?
300
The natural process that occurs on the Big Island of Hawaii can emit partials that act as a cooling effect in the atmosphere.
What is a volcano?
300
Satelites and shuttles orbit the earth
What is exosphere?
300
True or false was the mesosphere named after the high temperatures there?
false
400
I have very little molecules
What is Exosphere?
400
You touch something and your hand gets burned
What is conduction?
400
This term describes the 3,200 years that a molecule of sulfur hexafluoride stays in the atmosphere.
What is atmospheric lifetime?
400
This is where most jets fly
What is stratosphere?
400
True or false are there very few molecules in the exosphere?
true
500
I contain the ozone layer,which absorbs harmful UV light, most abundant at 15-35 km.
What is stratosphere?
500
You put your hand over a pot of boiling water and your hand gets hot
What is convection?
500
This term describes long-term [decades or longer] and persistent changes in Earths climate.
What is climate change?
500
Contains all mountains, snow, rain, and clouds.
What is troposphere?
500
True or false is the mesosphere home to the aurora borealis and the aurora austrlis?
false
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