Atmosphere Characteristics
Layers of the Atmosphere
Heat Transfer
Earth-Sun Relationships
100
This is the most abundant gas in the atmosphere.
What is Nitrogen?
100
You will spend your whole life in this layer of the atmosphere.
What is the troposphere?
100
When the particles in a substance move faster, the ___________ rises
What is temperature?
100
Earth is tilted this much on its axis.
What is 23.5°
200
Ozone, a molecule composed of 3 oxygen atoms, absorbs this.
What is Ultraviolet Radiation?
200
This layer contains the ozone.
What is stratosphere?
200
The sun heats the Earth through this method of heat transfer.
What is Radiation?
200
This causes day and night.
What is the Earth's rotation?
300
The heating of the lower layers of the atmosphere from radiation absorbed by certain heat absorbing gases is known as this.
What is the Greenhouse Effect?
300
All weather occurs in this layer of the atmosphere.
What is the Troposphere?
300
This is the process that describes the transfer of heat through matter by molecular activity.
What is conduction?
300
It takes this long for the Earth to go around the sun.
What is 365.25 days.
400
This layer of the atmosphere has a temperature of -56 degrees.
What is the Tropopause.
400
The layers of the atmosphere from bottom to top.
What is the Troposphere, The Stratosphere, the Mesosphere and the Thermosphere.
400
Earth receives energy from the sun from this method of heat transfer.
What is radiation?
400
This occurs on the 22nd of March in the Northern hemisphere.
What is The Vernal (Spring) Equinox.
500
This is the state of the atmosphere at any given time.
What is weather?
500
50 kilometers above the ground is where this layer of the atmosphere ends.
What is the Stratosphere?
500
This kind of heat transfer is when the air is heated.
What is convection?
500
When the Earth goes completely around the sun, it is called this.
What is Revolution?
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