Composition
Pressure
Word Roots
Temperature
General Knowledge
100
This is the most common atmospheric gas.
What is nitrogen?
100
Air pressure is a result of this force acting upon the gas molecules.
What is gravity?
100
This prefix means layered.
What is "strato-"?
100
Within the troposphere, temperature does this with increasing altitude.
What is decreases?
100
Starting at Earth's surface, this is the correct order of the atmospheric layers.
What is troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, and thermosphere?
200
This atmospheric gas is provided by phytoplankton and plants.
What is oxygen?
200
Air pressure does this as a result of increasing altitude.
What is decreases?
200
This prefix means heat.
What is "thermo-"?
200
Air temperature is the lowest within this atmospheric layer.
What is the mesosphere?
200
This is the correct chemical symbol for ozone.
What is O3?
300
Oxygen makes up this portion of our atmosphere.
What is twenty-one percent?
300
The air pressure at sea level is this many pounds per square inch.
What is fifteen pounds?
300
This prefix means middle.
What is "meso-"?
300
The temperature in the stratosphere increases as a result of this molecule.
What is ozone?
300
This term means charged particle.
What is ion?
400
Most of the water in the atmosphere exists in this form.
What is water vapor?
400
As air pressure increases, the molecules do this.
What is move closer together?
400
This prefix means turning.
What is "tropo-"?
400
The thermosphere has the highest atmospheric temperatures due to the concentration of these two gases.
What are oxygen and nitrogen?
400
The ozone layer protects us from this harmful aspect of the sun.
What is ultraviolet radiation (UV rays)?
500
The increase in this component of the atmosphere is attributed to global warming.
What is carbon dioxide?
500
As air pressure decreases, the gas molecules do this.
What is move further apart?
500
This word root means ball.
What is sphere?
500
The energy of a moving particle, or its temperature, is only transferred as heat when this happens.
What is when two or more moving particles collide?
500
The auroras occur is this section of the thermosphere.
What is the ionosphere?
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