Gases
What is Nitrogen?
Measure of distance above sea level.
What is altitude?
Where all weather occurs.
Located in the thermosphere.
What is the ionosphere?
The amount of energy needed to raise the temperature of 1 gram of a substance 1 degree C.
What is specific heat?
This is the second most abundant gas in the atmosphere.
What is oxygen?
Measure of forces per unit of air molecules in the atmosphere at a given altitude.
What is atmospheric pressure?
What is the stratosphere?
The orbit path of satellites.
What is the Clarke Belt?
The motion of Earth spinning on its axis.
What is rotation?
Makes up 1% of Earth's atmospheric gases.
What are Trace Gases?
An instrument that measures atmospheric pressure.
Barometer
Coldest layer in the atmosphere.
These were banned because they were causing damage to the ozone layer.
What are Chlorofluoracarbons (CFCs)?
What is revolution?
A mixture of gases that make up Earth's atmosphere.
What is air?
Blanket of gases that surrounds a planet.
What is atmosphere?
This layer has the highest temperatures.
Layer where radio waves and weather reports are transmitted from.
What is the exosphere?
This causes the Earth to have seasons.
What is axis?
The location of the orbits of satellites?
What is exosphere?