Look Up!
The Layers
Heat It Up!
The Climate
Easy Breezy
100
Layer of gasses that surrounds a planet or moon
What is the atmosphere?
100
The layer closest to outpace
What is the exosphere?
100
The sun warms the ground
What is radiation?
100
The equator is the warmest part of the earth because
What is it gets direct contact from the sun?
100
The northern lights
What is an aurora?
200
Which gas makes up the greatest percentage in the atmosphere?
What is nitrogen?
200
The layer that is has the ozone layer
What is the stratosphere?
200
The rising and sinking of warm and cold heats the atmosphere
What is convection ?
200
The climate is warming due to the burning of these
What is fossil fuels?
200
Charged particles that produce photons
What are ions?
300
The biosphere is where we live and consists of three layers.
What is the lithosphere, hydrosphere and atmosphere?
300
This is the warmest layer of the atmosphere
What is the thermosphere?
300
Water vapor, CO2 and other gases absorb and radiate thermal energy in our atmosphere and keep our atmosphere warm.
What is the greenhouse effect?
300
This band of wind travels quickly and can impact our weather and help with the flying of airplanes
What is the jet stream?
300
These winds are located at the equator and helped sailors to travel
What are the trade winds?
400
The measure of the force with which air molecules push on a surface
What is air pressure?
400
Temperatures can reach -148F
What is the mesosphere?
400
The direct contact of the atmosphere and the ground is this type of heat
What is conduction?
400
The gradual increase of temperatures in our atmosphere
What is global warming?
400
An example of an ocean current
What is the Gulf Stream?
500
The height of anything above a given planetary reference
What is altitude?
500
This birthplace of weather
What is the troposphere?
500
Energy that is received equals the energy that is lost and keeps our temperatures mild.
What is radiation balance?
500
Ocean currents and atmosphere currents
What are two factors that affect global climate?
500
The Corliolis Effect
What is an example of an atmospheric current?
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