The air around you
Air pressure
Heat and the atmosphere
Winds
Layers of the atmosphere
100
The atmosphere is made up of nitrogen,oxygen,carbon dioxide,water vapor,and other gases.
What are the materials of the atmosphere?
100
The amount of mass in a given volume.
What is density?
100
How heat travels through the vaccum of space
What are electromagnetic waves?
100
An instrament that measures wind.
What is an anemometer?
100
Troposphere,Stratosphere,Mesosphere,Thermosphere
What is the order of the layers of earth's atmosphere?
200
The condition of earth's atmosphere in a particular time and place.
What is weather?
200
A force pushing down on somthing.
What is pressure
200
A type of raidiation that has wavelengths longer than visible red light
What is infrared radiation?
200
The stronger the wind, the colder you get.
What is the wind-chill factor?
200
Weather occurs in the troposphere.
Where does weather occur?
300
Brown haze that is made over sunny cites
What is photochemical smog?
300
The column of air pushing down(and up) on something.
What is air pressure?
300
When dust and gases reflect electromagnetic waves.
What is scattering
300
Local winds go over short distances, but global winds go over larger areas.
What is the difference between local winds and global winds?
300
The Ionosphere and the Exosphere are part of the thermosphere
What are the two parts of the thermosphere?
400
The atmosphere makes earth able to have living things on it.
How is the atmosphere important to living things?
400
there are aneroid, and mercury barometers.
What kinds of barometers are there?
400
Most heat travels in visable light.
In what form does heat travel to earth.
400
Differences in air pressure.
What causes winds?
400
Ozone is mainly located in the stratosphere.
Where is most of the earth's ozone contained?
500
A form of oxygen with 3 O atoms in each molecule.
What is Ozone
500
THe height from sea level.
What is altitude?
500
Heat is taken in the atmosphere,and most of it goes to earth but the rest of it goes back into space as infrared radiation.
What happens when heat reaches earth?
500
Gaspard coriolis
Who discovered the coriolis effect?
500
The mesosphere protects earth from meteors.
What layer protects earth from meteors.
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