What is the Atmosphere?
The layer of gases surrounding Earth
What is the Atmosphere?
What are Nitrogen and Oxygen?
Gases that trap the Sun's radiation (heat) in our atmosphere.
The layer in which you see weather occurr.
What is the Troposphere?
The short-term atmospheric conditions of a region.
What is weather?
The force that keeps Earth's atmosphere held in place.
What is Gravity?
Small amounts of gases that exist in our atmosphere.
What are trace gases?
How much sunlight a surface reflects.
What is Albedo?
The layer where Auroras occurr.
The period needed by scientists to properly determine the climate of a region.
What is 30 years?
The Height above sea level.
What is Altitude?
Surprisingly, our atmosphere has a higher concentration of this Noble Gas.
What is Argon?
Earth's average albedo is about this small number.
What is 0.3?
A highly ionized sublayer of the Thermosphere.
What is the Ionosphere?
The burning of this type of resource has contributed to the supposed rise of global temperatures.
What are fossil fuels?
The four main systems of the Earth that include the atmosphere.
What is the Atmosphere, Biosphere, Geosphere, and Hydrosphere?
Pollen, Dust, and Volcanic Ash are all classified as this type of pollutant in our atmosphere.
What are aerosols?
A positive impact of the Greenhouse Effect.
Relegates temperature and keeps the planet warm enough for life to exist.
This sublayer of the Atmosphere is primarily made of O3 molecules.
What is the Ozone Layer?
The mass of air above a spot at a particular place and time.
What is Air Pressure?
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What is Air Mass?
The sub-system of Earth that includes Ice, Snow, and frozen water?
What is the Cryosphere?
The atmospheres of Venus and Mars are primarily composed of this gas, which is considered a trace gas on Earth.
What is Carbon Dioxide?
These are man-made greenhouse gases that have been sent into our atmsophere.
What are Fluorinated Gases?
Points where the temperatures flip direction from either rising to falling or falling to rising.
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What is Temperature Inversion?
The reason the troposphere is thicker around the equator than the poles.
What is Earth's rotation?