The Atmosphere
The four layers of the atmosphere in order from SPACE to EARTH'S SURFACE
What is the thermosphere, mesosphere, stratosphere, and troposphere?
The two greenhouse gases most responsible for the increase in the global temperature. (see graph)
Water Vapor and Carbon Dioxide
The movement of heat.
What is from a hotter object to a cooler object?
The substance that heats the fastest; sand or water.
What is sand / land?
The temperature RANGE in the TROPOSPHERE compared to the temperature RANGE in the STRATOSPHERE. (see graph)
What is 20 to -60 degrees compared to -60 to 46 degrees?
Fact about the relationship between Carbon Dioxide and global temperature. (see graph)
What is carbon dioxide has increased and global temperatures have increased?
Heat moves in waves.
What is radiation?
The substance that cools the fastest; sand or water.
What is sand?
The order of the layers from HIGHEST air pressure to LOWEST air pressure.
The man-made greenhouse gases being emitted (released) into the atmosphere in the smallest amounts. (see graph)
What is fluorinated gases and nitrous oxide?
Heat moves by direct contact.
What is conduction?
The change in temperature for sand from the 0 to 15 minutes it was heated.
What is 24 degrees to 46 degrees, which equals a change of 22 degrees C?
The composition of the Earth's atmosphere. (element name AND percent)
78% nitrogen, 21% oxygen, and 1% trace gases
What is true?
Heat moves from hot fluids rising and cooler fluids sinking.
What is convection?
The change in temperature for soil while it heated from 0 to 15 minutes.
What is 23 degrees to 46 degrees, which equals a change in temperature of 23 degrees C?
Temperature gets WARMER as altitude increases. Important to humans because it ABSORBS UV radiation making it warm up. Second highest air pressure. Layer within a layer. What layer of the atmosphere am I?
What is the stratosphere?
At higher elevations (altitudes) air has MORE greenhouse gases, MORE oxygen, MORE pressure, and MORE temperature. True or false?
What is false?
One example of radiation. One example of convection. One example of conduction.
What is the sun, water rising and falling in a pot, and burning my tongue on a hot cookie?
Conclusion made from the unequal heating earth's surface lab.
What is land and water heat up and cool down at different rates?