Definitions
Air Around You
Air Pressure
Layers of the atmosphere
Air Quality
100
The layer of gasses that surround the earth
What is the atmosphere?
100
The most abundant gas in the atmosphere.
What is Nitrogen?
100
The density formula.
What is mass/volume?
100
The way the layers of the atmosphere are classified.
What is by their change in temperature?
100
Around half of the cause of man made air pollution.
What are burning fossil fuels in cars?
200
Oxygen with three atoms in each molecule.
What is ozone?
200
The second most common atmospheric gas.
What is oxygen?
200
The reason you may need an oxygen mask to climb a tall mountain.
What is the oxygen is less dense?
200
The layer of the atmosphere that contains the ozone layer
What is the stratosphere?
200
The two things necessary for the production of photochemical smog.
What are pollutants and sunlight?
300
An instrument used to measure air pressure.
What is a barometer?
300
This atmospheric gas forms clouds.
What is water vapor?
300
The air pressure does this as you rise in elevation.
What is decreases?
300
The outermost layer of the atmosphere.
What is the exosphere?
300
Harmful particles and gasses.
What are pollutants?
400
The condition of the Earth's atmosphere at a particular time and place.
What is weather?
400
How oxygen is used other than breathing.
What is burning fuel and chemical reactions.
400
The difference between an aneroid and mercury barometer.
What is mercury uses a liquid and aneroid uses an airtight metal chamber?
400
The layer of the atmosphere with the most mass and contains weather.
What is the troposphere?
400
Rain with a lower pH than normal.
What is acid rain?
500
Elevation above sea level.
What is altitude?
500
The reason the atmosphere is suitable for living things.
What is it provides the correct gasses, temperature and level of protection necessary for life?
500
The reason air has pressure.
What is air has mass due to the molecules that make it up?
500
List of the 6 layers of the atmosphere from the ground up.
What is troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere which contains the ionosphere and exosphere.
500
Ways to control human caused air pollution.
What are: Drive less, more public transportation, better regulation of factories, if you need a new car; buy an efficient one, etc...
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