Gases in the Atmosphere and Pollution
Air Pressure and Altitude
Layers of the Atmosphere
Energy in the Atmosphere
Heat Transfer
100
The most abundant gases in the atmosphere. In order.
What is nitrogen and oxygen?
100
This instrument measures air pressure.
What is an barometer?
100
Meteors burn up in this layer.
What is the Mesosphere?
100
The Earth's surface is heated blank.
What is unevenly?
100
Name the three kinds of heat transfer.
What is convection, conduction, and radiation?
200
This the major source of smog.
What is emissions from cars and trucks?
200
As air pressure decreases, this increases.
What is altitude?
200
This layer means turning or changing.
What is the Troposphere?
200
Blank has wavelengths longer than red light.
What is Infrared Radiation?
200
When cold and warm energy are flowing through a liquid in a cycle this is an example of blank.
What is convection?
300
The gases in our atmosphere act like this.
What is the walls of an greenhouse?
300
These are the two kinds of barometers.
What is aneroid and mercury?
300
This layer contains the ozone layer.
What is the Stratosphere?
300
Blank has wavelengths shorter than violet light.
What is Ultraviolet Radiation?
300
When heat is transferred through an liquid by touching this is an example of what.
What is Conduction?
400
Solid particles and gases.
What is emissions?
400
As you get higher up altitude increases, while blank decreases.
What is temperature?
400
We live here.
What is the Troposphere?
400
This is a mixture of all light.
What is Visible Light?
400
An egg frying in a pan is an example of this.
What is Conduction?
500
Three effects of acid rain.
What is kills fish, destroys forests, kills plants, and makes cars rust faster?
500
Air pressure is measured in these.
What is millibars?
500
Air in this layer doesn't feel hot but is.
What is the Thermosphere?
500
This kind of radiation causes eye damage.
What is Ultraviolet radiation?
500
If water is boiling on a heated stove this is what.
What is Convection?
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