The result of a weight of a column of air pushing down on an area.
What is air pressure?
100
The layer of the atmosphere where weather takes place.
What is the troposphere?
100
Provide a basic definition of pollution.
What is harmful substances in the air, water, or soil?
100
Provide 2 ways that humans can reduce air pollution.
What is walk, take a bike,use public transportation, or carpool when possible. Avoid using aerosols. Avoid burning things that release toxic fumes into the atmosphere. Buy a hybrid or ZEV. etc.
200
The percentage of Earth's atmosphere consisting of oxygen.
What is 21%?
200
Density equals ______ divided by ______.
What is mass divided by volume?
200
The layer of the atmosphere that contains the ozone layer.
What is the stratosphere?
200
Provide 2 health effects of exposure to air pollution.
What is lung disease, breathing problems, asthma, nose and throat irritation, etc.
200
What do the letters in EPA stand for?
What is the Environmental Protection Agency?
300
This gas is used by plants to make food, but too much of it in the atmosphere contributes to global warming.
What is carbon dioxide?
300
The two units used to measure air pressure.
What is inches of mercury and millibars?
300
What does the mesosphere protect Earth from?
What is meteoroids?
300
What is smog?
What is smoke and fog?
300
What health affect does exposure to carbon monoxide have?
What is it reduces the blood's ability to deliver oxygen to cells.
400
Name 3 gases that help to make up the remaining 1% of Earth's atmosphere.
What is argon, carbon dioxide, neon, helium, methane, krypton, and hydrogen.
400
Describe the relationship between altitude and air pressure.
What is as altitude increases, air pressure decreases?
400
The outermost layer of the Earth's atmosphere.
What is the thermosphere. (Accept exosphere)
400
Describe the difference between London-type smog and photochemical smog?
What is London-type smog is formed from the burning of coal, and photochemical smog is formed by the production of ground-level ozone and other pollutants.
400
Explain why a thermometer in the thermosphere would read well below 0 degrees Celsius?
What is the air molecules are so far apart that they do not collide?
500
Explain why the atmosphere is important to living things on Earth.
What is the atmosphere contains oxygen, traps heat from the sun and keeps Earth warm to enough to contain liquid water, and protects Earth from harmful UV radiation.
500
Explain the relationship between altitude and density of air.
What is when altitude increases, the density of air decreases
500
The ionosphere is where charged particles produce the brilliant light displays known as the _________ _________. (both names)
What is aurora borealis / Northern Lights?
500
Explain why rain is naturally acidic.
What is water vapor mixes with carbon dioxide and forms carbonic acid - making rain slightly acidic.
500
Explain how an aneroid barometer works.
What is a metal chamber that is sensitive to changes in air pressure is connected to a series of springs and levers?