The Air Around us and Air Pressure
There is a small percent of these in the atmosphere.
What are trace gases?
Weather occurs in this layer.
What is the troposphere?
Has longer wavelengths then red light.
What is infrared radiation?
This is a device that measures temperature.
What is a thermometer?
The movement of air parallel to Earth's surface.
What is wind?
this contains only gases.
What is pure air?
These go down when altitude goes up.
What is air pressure and temperature?
Examples of these are red, orange, violet, blue, ext.
What is visible light?
These two liquids are used in a thermometer.
What is mercury and alcohol?
Wind speed is measured with this.
What is an anemometer?
This drives the motions in the atmosphere.
What is the sun's energy?
This protects living things for ultraviolet radiation from the sun.
What is the ozone layer?
When this happens to energy it causes the land and water to be heated.
What is absorbed?
This transfers energy through liquids and gases, and the energy moves with the molecules when they move.
What is convection.
These are created by unequal heating of Earth's surface and occur over a large scale.
What are global winds?
Altitude is the distance above this.
What is sea level?
Protects Earth's surface from meteoroids.
What is the mesosphere?
This process causes the sky to be blue.
What is scattering?
The transfer of heat when a fast moving molecule bumps into a slower moving one and transfers energy to it.
What is conduction?
This causes global winds to not travel in a straight path towards the equator.
What is the Coriolis effect?
This is the unit of air pressure for the general public.
What is inches of mercury?
These layers make up the thermosphere.
What is the ionosphere and exosphere?
It travels from the sun, through space, to Earth's surface.
What are electromagnetic waves?
An example of this transfer of energy is when you feel heat from the sun.
What is Radiation?
Energy from the sun gits this least directly.
What are the poles?