Vocab
This is the thin envelope of gases that surrounds the planet.
What is the atmosphere?
This is the layer where Earth's weather occurs.
What is the troposphere?
As altitude increases, air pressure....
What is decreases?
Name the four spheres.
What is atmosphere, biosphere, geosphere and hydrosphere?
This is the pressure caused by the weight of a column of air pushing down on an area.
What is air pressure?
This is the uppermost layer of the atmosphere, with the lowest density of air.
What is the thermosphere?
These are the gases found in the atmosphere.
What is Nitrogen, Oxygen and other gases (argon, ozone and carbon dioxide)?
This sphere consists of a continuous cycle that interacts with the atmosphere, with water always moving from the surface to the atmosphere.
What is the hydrosphere?
This is the elevation above sea level.
What is altitude?
This layer of Earth's atmosphere contains the most ozone.
What is the stratosphere?
True or false. Air is the same thing as oxygen.
All four spheres ____ with each other, meaning if something happens to one, all others feel it.
What is interact?
This is the horizontal movement of air from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure.
What is wind?
What is the mesosphere?
What is 78%?
The rock cycle moves through this sphere.
This describes conditions as constant.
What is stable?
This decreases (gets less) the further up you travel from the surface of the Earth.
What is density of air?
This area of the stratosphere was damaged by chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and now has a hole in it, allowing harmful UV light to enter in.
What is the ozone layer?
These are caused by cool and warm air and produce global winds.
What are convection currents?