The Atmosphere
The blanket of air and gas that surrounds the Earth
What is the Atmosphere?
The instrument used to measure air temperature
What is a thermometer?
We breathe this.
What is Oxygen?
The state of the atmosphere at a specific time and place.
What is weather?
The layer of atmosphere closest to Earths Surface
What is Troposphere?
This minor layer of the atmosphere fades into space
What is Exosphere?
The instrument used to measure wind speed
What is an Anemometer?
21% of the Earth's atmosphere is made up of this kind of Gas
What is Oxygen?
The average amount of heat in the air is known as
What is Air Temperature?
The layer of the atmosphere that protects the Earth from space objects such as meteors
What is the Mesosphere?
The hottest layer of the atmosphere
What is the Thermosphere?
The degree the atmosphere is measured in
What is Celsius?
78% of the atmosphere is made up of this gas
What is Nitrogen?
The movement of air from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure
What is wind?
The percentage of radiation from the Sun that is absorbed by the Earth's surface.
What is 51%?
The layer within the stratosphere with a high concentration of ozone: absorbs most of the sun's harmful ultraviolet radiation
What is the Ozone Layer?
The instrument used to measure air pressure
What is a barometer?
The force of air exerted on an area from all directions, including directly down on Earth
What is Air Pressure?
This is the layer of the atmosphere in which humans live and weather occurs.
What is Troposphere?
The four layers of the atmosphere from the surface to space
What are Troposphere, Stratosphere, Mesosphere, and Thermosphere?
This type of chart is used to show the percentages of gases in the atmosphere.
What is a pie chart?
Water Vapor is one of these.
What is a greenhouse gas?
One measures data over a short period of time and gives forecast the other over a long period of time and gives averages
What are climate and weather?
This decreases as you travel up in altitude away from the surface of the Earth?
What is atmospheric pressure?