Layers of the Atmosphere
Air Composition
Solar Radiation
Miscellaneous
100
The layer where weather only occurs.
What is the troposphere?
100
The most common gas in the atmosphere.
What is nitrogen?
100
The direct transfer of energy given off by electromagnetic waves.
What is radiation?
100
Means "without water."
What is the word aneroid?
200
The layer with the ozone layer.
What is the stratosphere?
200
Gases that make up the 1% of other gases in the atmosphere.
What are trace gases?
200
The form of visible light that has the longest wavelength.
What is red light?
200
The two words that were combined to create the word "smog" in 1905.
What are the words "smoke" and "fog?"
300
The amount of mass in a given volume.
What is density?
300
Oxygen molecules that have 3 oxygen atoms instead of 2.
What is ozone?
300
A spectrum that includes all the colors you see in a rainbow.
What is visible light?
300
The increased cooling of a wind.
What is the wind-chill factor?
400
The warmest layer of the atmosphere.
What is the thermosphere?
400
Air that has only gas atoms, which only exists in labs.
What is pure air?
400
Radiation with wavelengths shorter than violet light. It can cause sunburns, skin cancer, and eye damage.
What is ultraviolet radiation?
400
The effect that causes the winds' path to curve because of Earth's rotation.
What is the Coriolis effect?
500
The layer of the thermosphere in which the Aurora Borealis appears.
What is the ionosphere?
500
The gas that moves in a cycle from the air to the soil to living things.
What is nitrogen?
500
When dust particles and gases in the atmosphere reflect light in all directions.
What is scattering?
500
What is formed by the action of sunlight on pollutants.
What is photochemical smog?
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