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Composition of Atmosphere
Greenhouse Effect
Air Pressure, Altitude and Temperature
Layers of the Atmosphere
Severe weather
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This gas makes up 78% of the Earth's atmosphere

What is Nitrogen?

100

Name one greenhouse gas. 

What is CO2, ozone, methane or water vapor?

100
Where is the most air pressure, closest to the surface or furthest away? 

What is closest?

100

The lowest layer of the atmosphere, where weather occurs

What is the Troposphere?

100

What is a weather event that creates white out conditions where snow is moving in high winds.

What is a blizzard? 

200

Approximately what percentage of the atmosphere does oxygen make up?

What is 21%?

200

The glass of the Earth's "greenhouse" is the 

What is atmosphere?

200

Air pressure _______________ with altitude. 

What is decreases?

200

The stratosphere contains _____________, which protects us from the Sun's radiation. 

What is ozone?

200
Most tornadoes occur here
What is tornado alley (central US) 
300

Oxygen and Nitrogen together make up this percentage of air in the atmosphere

What is 99%?

300

The greenhouse effect warms the Earth because of these

What are trapped gases?

300

Another word for altitude

What is elevation? 

300

Air pressure is the lowest in this layer. 

What is Exosphere? 

300

When there is a period of lower than normal levels of precipitation

What is a drought? 

400

What is the name for gases that make up 1% of the atmosphere's air?

What are trace gases?

400

What are two ways that humans can increase CO2 in the atmosphere?

What is burn fossil fuels, breathe, drive cars, produce things in factories?

400

Temperature DECREASES with altitude in these two layers

What is the Troposphere and Mesosphere?

400

The coldest layer of the atmosphere

What is the mesosphere 

400

The recent hurricane in Jamaica

What is Hurricane MELISSA
500

Name one gas that makes up a portion of 1% of the atmosphere's air. 

What is ozone, Argon, water vapor or CO2?

500

What would happen on Earth without the greenhouse effect?

What is the drastic cooling of the Earth? (we would no longer survive)

500

Temperature INCREASES with altitude in these two layers

What is Stratosphere and Thermosphere? 
500

Where satellites and the ISS are located

What is the thermosphere?

500

Compare and contrast hurricanes and tornadoes 

Hurricanes form over water, tornadoes form over land. Hurricanes are much larger, tornadoes are smaller. Hurricanes are slower moving, tornadoes end faster.

Both produce strong winds and cause destruction.