What are the 5 layers of the atmosphere?
Troposphere, Stratosphere, Mesosphere, Thermosphere, Exosphere
Low atmospheric pressure=
bad weather
High atmospheric pressure=
good weather
What are the four kinds of fossils?
Which layer does weather occur in?
Troposphere
As pressure increases, what happens to density?
Increases
Humidity is a measure of ____ in the air.
Water vapor
What is absolute dating concerned with?
The numerical age of a fossil or layer.
Which layer is the ozone layer in?
Stratosphere
What are the two things that affect wind?
Pressure and altitude.
What two things need to be the same for fog to form?
Dew point and temperature.
What is relative dating concerned with?
The order of the ages of fossils and layers.
Which layer does the air dwindle into nothing?
Exosphere
As density increases, what happens to the temperature?
decreases
What three things are needed to create thunderstorms?
Moisture, stability, and lifting
How many half-lives does it take for an organism to have 25% of its parent left?
2
Which layer do we see shooting stars?
Mesosphere
Why is wind faster the higher up you go?
Less friction.
When electricity is transferred by the rapid rushed of air in a cumulonimbus cloud, what occurs?
Lightning
List the order of geologic time organizers from longest to shortest.
Eons, Eras, Periods, Epochs