The Air Around You
Air Pressure
Layers of the Atmosphere
Air Quality
Miscellaneous
100
The condition of Earth's atmosphere at a particular time and place.
What is weather
100
The result of the weight of a column of air pushing down on an area.
What is air pressure?
100
According to changes in temperature.
How do scientists classify layers of the atmosphere?
100
Harmful substances in the air, water, or soil.
What are pollutants?
100
Ionospher and Exosphere
What are the layers of the thermosphere?
200
The envelope of gases that surround a planet.
What is the atmosphere?
200
Barometer
What is an instrument used to measure air pressure?
200
Weather layer of the atmosphere.
What is the troposphere?
200
Rain that contains more acid than normal.
What is acid rain?
200
Forest fires, volcanoes, wind.
What are natural causes of pollution?
300
Oxygen, carbon dioxide, nitrogen, and argon.
What are the main gases in Earth's atmosphere?
300
Air pressure response to altitude.
What inceases as the other decreases?
300
Contains the ozone layer.
What is the stratophere?
300
Formed by the action of sunlight on air polluntants.
What is photochemical smog?
300
Second layer of the atmosphere
What is the stratosphere?
400
A form of oxygen that has three oxygen atoms.
What is ozone?
400
Aneroid and mercury
What are the two types of barometers?
400
Top layer of the atmosphere.
What is the thermosphere?
400
Main pollutant in photochemical smog.
What is ozone?
400
The second most abundant gas in the atmosphere.
What is oxygen?
500
The most abundant gas in the atmosphere.
What is nitrogen?
500
Mass divided by volume
What is density?
500
Layer of the atmosphere that protects us from meteoroids.
What is the mesosphere?
500
Smoking, driving, farming
What are human causes of pollution?
500
Protects us from harmgul uv radiation
What is the ozone layer?
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