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The force that air puts on an object.
What is air pressure?
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the middle layer of Earth's atmosphere; the layer in which meteors burn up.
What is the mesosphere?
100
The path water takes, and the changes it goes through as it moves on, above, and below Earth's surface.
What is the water cycle?
100
substances that are discharged into the air, such as from engines and factories.
What are emission?
100
To change from a gas to a liquid state.
What is condense?
200
Earth's coolest climate zones, located near the poles, where sunlight strikes the planet's surface least directly.
What are the polar zones?
200
A layer of the atmosphere that protects life on Earth by filtering out ultraviolet radiation from the Sun.
What is the ozone layer?
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Earth's warmest climate zone, located near the equator, where sunlight strikes the planet's surface most directly.
What is the tropical zone?
200
Invisible light that makes up part of solar radiation; too much of it can harm living things.
What is ultraviolet (UV) rays.
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The outermost layer of Earth's atmosphere; the layer in which molecules can escape Earth's gravity.
What is the exosphere?
300
A description of the temperature, clouds, rain, wind and other conditions in the air at a certain time.
What is weather?
300
The mass of air around Earth.
What is the atmosphere?
300
Earth's climate zones between the tropical and polar zones, where the angle of sunlight causes warmer summers and cooler winters.
What are the temperate zones?
300
The layer of Earth's atmosphere closest to the planet's surface; the layer in which weather takes place.
What is the troposphere?
300
The strength or energy that moves an object.
What is force?
400
matter that can freely change shape and size; it often cannot be seen.
What are gases?
400
The measurement of how hot or cold something is.
What is temperature?
400
Water that falls from clouds in the form of rain, snow, sleet, or hail.
What is precipitation?
400
airborne particles such as volcano ash, dust, and debris.
What are aerosols?
400
The force that draws objects toward the center of Earth or any other large celestial body.
What is gravity?
500
The process by which heat is trapped inside Earth's atmosphere by gases.
What is the greenhouse effect?
500
The weather conditions in an area over a long period of time.
What is climate?
500
The layer of Earth's atmosphere located beyond the troposphere; the layers that protects Earth from solar radiation.
What is the stratosphere?
500
An invisible, odorless gas that plants use during photosynthesis and that animals breathe out as a waste product.
What is carbon dioxide? (CO2)
500
The layer of Earth's atmosphere beyond the mesosphere; the layer in which the space shuttle orbits.
What is the thermosphere?
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