Vocabulary
What layer of the atmosphere do we live in?
Troposphere
Which layer has shooting stars?
Mesosphere
What's the most abundant gas in the atmosphere?
Nitrogen
The greenhouse effect causes the Earths air to?
Heat up
What layer is the closest to the earth?
Troposphere.
Which atmosphere layer is the hottest?
Thermosphere
What layer do planes fly in?
Stratosphere
This gas causes global warming.
Carbon dioxide
What percentage of the atmosphere is oxygen?
21%
What are greenhouse gases?
Gases which absorb heat energy in the atmosphere.
What's radiation?
Radiation is the transfer of energy through matter or space as electromagnet waves.
This layer separates the rest of the atmosphere from outer space.
Exosphere
What gas takes up about 21% of the atmosphere?
oxygen
What gas takes up 78% of the atmosphere?
Nitrogen.
True or False: Different neighborhoods vary by socioeconomic status and pollution.
True
What is the greenhouse effect?
The greenhouse effect is when the Earth's atmosphere traps solar radiation.
What's the coldest layer of the atmosphere?
Mesosphere.
The condition of the earth's atmosphere at a particular time and place?
Weather.
Which of the following is a greenhouse gas
A. Co2 C.Water Vapor
B. CH4 D.all of the above
D.all of the above
What layer does weather occur?
Troposphere.
What layer is the ozone in?
Stratosphere
How many miles thick is the stratosphere?
22
What's climate?
Climate is the average weather in a given area over a long period of time
What two gases are found in all the layers?
Nitrogen and Oxygen
What layer of the atmosphere has the highest density of gas molecules?
Exosphere.