Gas
Atmosphere
pollution/ heat
density/pressure
ozone
100
What percent of our atmosphere is made up of gases other than oxygen and nitrogen?
What is 1%
100
Earth’s atmosphere is important to living things because it
What is provides all the gases that living things need to survive.
100
Photochemical smog results from the interaction of pollutants in the presence of
What is smog
100
Density can be determined using the formula
What is density = mass/volume.
100
The ozone layer protects living things on Earth from
What is ultraviolet radiation.
200
When climbing a high mountain, you get out of breath easily because
What is there is less oxygen in each cubic meter of air.
200
Earth’s atmosphere traps energy from the sun, which
What is allows water to be a liquid
200
Heat transfer between two substances that are in contact is called
What is conduction
200
The less mass in a given volume of air, the
What is less dense air
200
Wavelengths that are a little bit shorter than visible light are
What is ultraviolet
300
The ____________________, or elevation, of a mountaintop is its distance above sea level.
What is altitude
300
The layer of our atmosphere in which weather occurs is the
What is trophosphere
300
Heat from the sun reaches you by
What radiation
300
The air pressure acting on the roof of your house
What is comes from all the air above your roof.
300
Most of Earth’s incoming ultraviolet radiation is absorbed by
What is the ozone
400
Scientists divide Earth’s atmosphere into four main layers, classified according to changes in ____________________.
What is temperature
400
Global winds generally
What is blow from specific directions over long distances.
400
The doldrums are characterized by
What is weak winds
400
Instruments used to measure air pressure are called
What is barometers
400
Most of the energy that heats Earth’s atmosphere is
What is infrared radiation
500
In the part of the atmosphere called the ____________________, energy from the sun strikes gas molecules and causes them to glow.
What is ionopshpere
500
Earth’s rotation makes global winds curve. This is called the
What is coriolis effect
500
In the atmosphere, some of the sun’s rays get ____________________, or reflected in all directions.
What is scattered
500
Winds are caused by differences in
What is air pressure
500
Gases in the air hold much of the energy that is radiated from Earth’s surface in a process called the _________________________.
What is greenhouse effect
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