Vocabulary
Atmosphere
What is a layer of gases that are held to the Earth by the force of gravity?
The layer where we live. Closest to the Earth's surface. Contains most of our weather.
What is the ozone's purpose?
It protects Earth from UV radiation
Ozone
What is made of a toxic, colorless gas that protects life on Earth from ultraviolet radiation?
What is located in the Stratosphere?
What is the ozone layer
Name the biogeochemical cycles
Climate Change
What is a change in global climate patterns that we blame on increased greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. The increase in greenhouse gases is due to the use of fossil fuels?
What layer is the Mesosphere? What happens in this layer?
The 3rd layer of the atmosphere. Meteors from space burn here.
The hydrologic cycle?
Atmospheric Gases
What is Nitrogen, Oxygen, Argon, Carbon Dioxide, and trace amounts of other gases?
What is the Thermosphere?
The fourth layer of the atmosphere.
What layer of the atmosphere do we live?
What is the troposphere?
Biogeochemical cycle
How a substance moves through the biosphere, lithosphere, atmosphere, and hydrosphere.
BONUS (Double or nothing points!!): What is located in the Thermosphere?
The International Space Station
What is the hydrosphere?
All the water on earth's surface