Layers
Gases
Pressure/Wind
Vocabulary
Vocabulary
100
The layer of the atmosphere where weather occurs.
What is the troposphere?
100
The gas that is the most common in the atmosphere.
What is nitrogen?
100
As you rise upwards in the atmosphere, air pressure...
What is decreases?
100
A device used to measure temperature.
What is a thermometer?
100
The transfer of energy by electromagnetic waves.
What is radiation?
200
The layer of the atmosphere between the stratosphere and the thermosphere.
What is the mesosphere?
200
The percent of the "trace gases" other than oxygen and nitrogen.
What is 1%?
200
Winds that travel from west to east across the United States are known as this.
What are westerlies?
200
The upward movement of warm air and the downward movement of cool air forms this.
What is convection currents?
200
Energy that is not visible by humans but is felt as heat.
What is infrared radiation?
300
The ozone in the stratosphere protects us from....
What is ultraviolet radiation?
300
Greenhouse gases in our atmosphere keep our planet...
What is warm?
300
As air pressure increases, density....
What is increases?
300
Mass divided by volume.
What is density?
300
The invisible form of electromagnetic energy that can cause sunburn.
What is ultraviolet radiation?
400
The layer that protects the Earth from meteoroids.
What is the mesosphere?
400
If a gas is heated, it will become more or less dense.
What is less dense?
400
The less mass in a given volume of air, the ____________ dense the air.
What is less?
400
The elevation above sea level.
What is altitude?
400
Measures the total energy of motion in the particles of a substance.
What is thermal energy?
500
List the layers of the atmosphere in order from Earth to space.
What are troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere?
500
Name the 3 main greenhouse gases
What is carbon dioxide, methane, and water vapor?
500
What causes wind?
What is the uneven heating of the Earth changes the air pressure which in turn causes cold air to move under warm air?
500
Gases that absorb heat to keep our atmosphere warm.
What are greenhouse gases?
500
The transfer of heat between substances that are in direct contact.
What is conduction?
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