EARTH'S ATMOSPHERE
Who was a Swedish pharmacist and chemist?
Karl Schelle
What is the envelope of gases surrounding the earth?
The atmosphere.
What is the most significant role for nitrogen in the atmosphere?
To dilute oxygen to the appropriate level.
Who isolated a sample of air that had all the “flammable air” (oxygen) removed?
Daniel Rutherford
What is the steady temperature change associated with altitude change?
Lapse rate.
The most abundant gas in the homosphere is?
Nitrogen.
Who made many groundbreaking advances in our knowledge of the chemistry of gases and electricity?
Joseph Priestly
Fast winds that travel in paths in the stratosphere are called?
Jet streams.
The largest carbon reservoir in the carbon cycle is found in?
The atmosphere.
Who was the atmosphere researcher, a Christian, who tested the idea that most, if not all, of the water for the Flood came from the collapse of a water vapor canopy?
Larry Vardiman
What is the indirect warming of the atmosphere called?
Greenhouse effect.
This is made up of 3 atoms of oxygen?
ozone
He is often called the “Father of chemistry"?
Antoine Lavoisier
The rate of solar energy flow that reaches the earth is called?
Solar constant.
Which of these helps to convert atmospheric nitrogen to a usable organic form?
Lightning