Vocabulary
Earth's Layers
Energy in the Atmosphere
Gases in the Atmosphere
Pollution
100
The distance between two crests of a wave.
What is wavelength?
100
The 5 layers of the Atmosphere in order.
What is Troposphere, Stratosphere, Mesosphere, Thermosphere, and Exosphere?
100
__________ ________ is energy with wavelengths longer than visible red light.
What is Infared Radiation?
100
Water in the form of gas.
What is water vapor?
100
Made of 3 Oxygen atoms.
What is Ozone?
200
Thick, brownish haze formed when certain gases in the air react in sunlight.
What is photochemical smog?
200
This major layer contains the minor Ozone layer.
What is Stratosphere?
200
________ Radiation causes sunburn.
What is Ultraviolet?
200
Third most abundant gas in the Atmosphere.
What is Argon?
200
Precipitation that is more acidic than normal.
What is Acid Rain?
300
Movement of molecules caused by energy.
What is molecular motion?
300
The _____ layer contains satellites.
What is Exosphere?
300
The 6 colors of visible light.
What is red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet?
300
78% of the Earth's gases are made of this gas.
What is Nitrogen?
300
This is the largest producer of smog.
What is large city?
400
Causes pollution- a harmful change in the atmosphere.
What is pollutants?
400
The 2 minor layers found in the Thermosphere.
What is Ionosphere and Exosphere?
400
All of the Earth's energy comes from ___.
What is sun?
400
Major gas found in pollution.
What is Carbon Dioxide?
400
A change in the Atmosphere that has harmful effects.
What is air pollution?
500
Convection: The transfer of heat in a ______ substance.
What is moving?
500
5 things you can find in the Troposphere,.
What is weather, hot air balloons, small planes, cumulonimbus clouds, and life?
500
Energy travels to earth in this kind of wave.
What is Electromagnetic wave?
500
The 4 major gases in the Atmosphere, from most abundant to least abundant.
What is Nitrogen, Oxygen, Argon, and Carbon Dioxide?
500
Solid particles or gases of pollution.
What is emissions?
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