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The two most abundant gases in the atmosphere.
What is nitrogen and oxygen?
100
Most pollution comes from this.
What is burning fossil fuels?
100
The weight of the air pushing down on an area.
What is air pressure?
100
From space to Earth, the main layers of the atmosphere are these.
What is thermosphere, mesosphere, stratosphere, and troposphere?
100
Ozone is made up of these three atoms in each molecule.
What is oxygen?
200
Water exist as liquid, because the atmosphere does this.
What is the atmosphere traps energy from the sun?
200
Interaction of sunlight and pollutants create this.
What is photochemical smog?
200
Air pressure can be measured in these two units.
What are millibars and inches?
200
The layer of in our atmosphere in which weather occurs.
What is the troposphere?
200
The condition of Earth's atmosphere at a particular time and place.
What is weather?
300
Besides gas, air also contains this. Give two examples.
What are particles, such as dust, pollen, salt, and other chemicals?
300
Name the two acids that form when combined with water to create acid rain.
What is nitrogen oxide and sulfur oxide?
300
The amount of mass in a given volume.
What is density?
300
The major difference between an aneroid barometer and a mercury barometer.
What is aneroid barometers do not contain liquid?
300
Besides nitrogen and oxygen, the other gases make up this percentage of air.
What is 1%?
400
Besides oxygen and nitrogen, name three of the gases that make up the gases in dry air.
What is argon, carbon dioxide, neon, helium, methane, krypton, and/or hydrogen?
400
This atmospheric gas forms clouds when it condenses.
What is water vapor?
400
If the density of a fixed volume of air increases, the air pressure does this.
What is increases?
400
This layer protects us from meteoroids.
What is the mesosphere?
400
Satellites orbit in this layer of the thermosphere.
What is the exosphere?
500

In order for wood to burn what is needed

What is Oxygen?

500

Name three ways that harmful particles can enter the air NATURALLY.

Possible answers What is ocean waves splash salt water and evaporates; the wind blows mold and plant pollen in the air; forest fires, soil erosion, and dust storms add particles into the air; volcanoes spew out clouds of dust, ashes, and poisonous gases, plants produce pollen?

500

The force pushing on an area or surface is known as 

What is pressure?

500

The Aurora Borealis occurs in what layer of the atmosphere

What is the Ionosphere?

500

DOUBLE JEOPARDY - The government agency that monitors air pollution is called the

What is the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)?