Layers
Energy And heat transfers
Vocabulary
Pollution
Gases in the Atmosphere
100
Layer that is closest to the earth
What is troposphere
100
Transfer of heat in a moving substance
What is convection
100
Thick, brownish haze formed when certain gases in the air react with sunlight
What is photochemical smog
100
It limits what can be released into the atmosphere
What is the clean air act
100
The most abundant gas in the atmosphere
What is nitrogen
200
Second layer of the atmosphere that consist if the ozone layer
What is stratosphere
200
The direct transfer of heat from one substance to another that is touching
What is conduction
200
A theory that predicts that an increase in carbon dioxide will cause Earth's average temperature to rise
What is Greenhouse Effect
200
Burning fossil fuels, burning forest, and the evaporation of VOCs
What is three sources of air pollution
200
The second most abundant gas
What is oxygen
300
Third layer that protects earth from bing hit by meteors
What is the mesoshere
300
100%solar radiation incoming as_____,________,__________
What is visible light, infrared radiation, and ultraviolet radiation
300
Solid particles and gases that are released into the air
What is emissions
300
? formed near the ground is known as a secondary pollutant
What is ozone
300
What percent do all other gases take up
What is 1%
400
Fourth layer of the atmosphere that is divided into two layers
What is thermosphere
400
Some energy that reaches the surface is______________________________________
What is reflected back into the atmosphere
400
Movement of molecules caused by energy[more energy=faster, more heat]
What is molecular motion
400
_____________________consist mainly of ozone
What is photochemical smog
400
About of all the other gases(NOT NITROGEN AND OXYGEN), what is the most abundant gas
What is Argon
500
Two layers of the thermosphere
What is the ionosphere and the exosphere
500
To bounce back
What is reflection
500
A change to the atmosphere that has harmful effects
What is pollutants
500
the least abundant gas out of all the other gases
What is hydrogen
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