COMPOSITION OF THE ATMOSPHERE
ATMOSPHERIC HEATING
GLOBAL AND LOCAL WINDS
AIR POLLUTION
MAINTAINING AIR QUALITY
100
The percentage of the atmosphere that is oxygen.
What is 20%
100
The transfer of energy as electromagnetic waves.
What is radiation?
100
The movement of air caused by air pressure.
What is wind?
100
3 examples of pollutants of the air
What are industrial emission,vehicle exhaust and volcanic ash?
100
The 4 health problems that air pollution can cause.
What are asthma, allergies, lung and heart problems ?
200
The atmospheric gas that makes up most of the atmosphere.
What is Nitrogen?
200
The transfer of energy as heat through a material.
What is conduction?
200
wind belts between 60 and 90 degrees lattitude.
What is the polar easterlies?
200
A mix of indoor air with outdoor air.
What is ventilation?
200
2 ways to reduce air pollution.
What are riding a bike instead of a car or carpooling with a friend?
300
The layers of the atmosphere excluding the exosphere.
What is Troposphere,Stratosphere,Mesosphere and Thermosphere?
300
The transfer of thermal energy by circulation or movement of a liquid or gas.
What is convection?
300
prevailing winds that blow east to west between 30 and 60 degrees lattitude.
What is westerlies?
300
A major source of air pollution today.
What is transportation?
300
A device that is used to remove some pollutants before they are released from smoke stacks.
What is a scrubber?
400
The atmosphere that humans live in.
What is Troposphere?
400
the warming of the earths surface that occurs when water vapor,carbon dioxide,and other gases absorb and reradiate thermal energy.
What is greenhouse effect?
400
prevailing winds that blow east to west from 30 degrees lattitude and the equator.
What is trade winds?
400
the contamination of the atmosphere by the introduction of pollutants from human and natural sources.
What is air pollution?
400
Is used to provide the public with daily air quality information.
What is the Air Quality Index?
500
The prefix meso stands for.
What is middle?
500
a gradual increase in average global temperature.
What is global warming?
500
bands of high pressure and low pressure found about every 30 degrees of lattitude.
What is pressure belts?
500
Rain, sleet or snow that contains a high concentration of acids.
What is acid precipitation?
500
The device on a car that removes many pollutants from the exhaust to meet EPA standards.
What is the Catalytic Converter?
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