Layers of the Atmosphere
Cycles
Energy and Light
Gases and Changes
Vocabulary
100
The layer where air is most dense
What is troposphere
100
These organisms take in carbon dioxide and make sugars
What are plants
100
The type of light that causes sunburn and skin cancer
What is ultraviolet light?
100
By percentage, the most abundant Greenhouse Gas
What is carbon dioxide?
100
mass per unit volune
What is density?
200
Ozone is located here
What is stratosphere?
200
This compound leaves Earth as a gas but returns as a liquid
What is water?
200
this light warms its surroundings
What is infrared light?
200
This sudden change shoots carbon dioxide, water vapor and other gases into the atmophere
What is volcanic eruption?
200
The layer of air surrounding Earth
What is atmosphere?
300
This contains 80% of the mass of the atmosphere
What is troposphere
300
Three forms of precipation
What are rain, snow, sleet, hail (any three)
300
This gas allows visible light to pass through but absorbs UV light
What is ozone?
300
Two of the natural causes that allow dust storms to occur.
What are wind, water or drought? (any two of these)
300
The distance above sea level
What is altitude?
400
In the stratosphere, temperatures are highest over this pole
What is the summer pole?
400
Plants/animals return the nitrogen to the soil when they do this?
What is die/decay
400
Scientist refer to the process of gases that absorb and emit infrared radiation, which keeps energy in the Earth’s system for a while as this
What is the Greenhouse Effect?
400
Besides wood ash, what is also produced when forest fires occur?
What is carbon dioxide?
400
the transfer of heat energy from one substance to another by direct contact
What is conduction?
500
The layers that have the temperature rise as one moves upward
What is stratosphere and thermosphere?
500
These organisms remove nitrogen gas from the air and soil
What are bacteria?
500
Visible light has a lower wavelength of 400 nm. The upper wavelength is a this value? (+/- 10 nm)
What is 700 nm?
500
The main gases in the atmosphere are nitrogen and oxygen. There is also carbon dioxide. This is the next most abundant gas present.
What is argon?
500
When one feels warmth from a fire, energy is being transferred by this type of radiation?
What is electromagnetic?
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