The Atmosphere
Heating Earth's Surfaces
Air Properties
Layers
Misc.
100
The layer of the atmosphere closest to the earth, the layer we live in?
What is the troposphere?
100
The transfer of heat through a liquid or gas.
What is convection?
100
As altitude increases, pressure does this.
What is decreases?
100
This absorbs most of the incoming ultraviolet radiation and is found in this layer.
What is ozone and the stratosphere?
100
Instruments used to measure air pressure.
What are barometers?
200
The layer of the atmosphere in outer space, where the space station is and there is little or no gasses.
What is the exosphere?
200
Energy transferred from one object to another without heating space in between.
What is radiation?
200
The amount (mass) of oxygen in a cubic meter of air.
What is density?
200
Weather occurs in this layer.
What is the troposphere?
200
The type of heat transfer when warm air rises and cool are sinks.
What is convection?
300
The percent of nitrogen in the atmosphere?
What is 78?
300
The type of heat transfer that can cause your feet to get hot when walking barefoot.
What is conduction?
300
A balloon filled with air demonstrates this property of air.
What is air has mass?
300
This layer protects us from meteoroids hitting Earth.
What is the mesosphere?
300
These are not found in pure air.
What are particles?
400
The reason Earth's atmosphere is important to living things.
What is provide conditions suitable for survival?
400
The name of the process when energy that is radiated from Earth's surface is held by gases in the air.
What is the greenhouse effect?
400
As altitude decreases, density does this.
What is increases?
400
The name for the layer of gases that surrounds Earth.
What is the atmosphere?
400
This human activity is responsible for the formation of photochemical smog and acid rain.
What is burning fossil fuels?
500
The form in which most of sun's energy travels to Earth.
What is visible light?
500
Sun's energy reaches Earth's surface through this method of heat transfer.
What is radiation?
500
When mass decreases in a given volume, this results.
What is density decreases?
500
Changes in this determine how the layers of the atmosphere are classified.
What is temperature?
500
The 3 most abundant gases in the atmosphere.
What are nitrogen, oxygen, and Argon?
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