Atm. Characteristics
Layers of the Atm
Heat Transfer
Temp. Controls
Earth-sun Relationships
100
What is 46% of pollution produced by?
What is Transportation
100
The second layer of the atmosphere.
What is the strataosphere?
100
the transfer of heat through matter by molecular activity
What is conduction?
100
An albedo is the fraction of total radiation that's reflected by any surface.
What is an albedo?
100
September 22-23
What is the autumn equinox?
200
What is most of the Atm made up of
What is nitrogen
200
The Layer between the Thermosphere and the mesosphere.
What is the mesopause?
200
Heat is transfered through this.
What is warmer to cooler objects?
200
Isotherms are lines that connect points that have the same temperatures.
What is an Isotherm?
200
365 1/4 days
How long does it take for the Earth to revolve around the sun?
300
What is the biggest single pollutant
What is carbon monoxide
300
Mt. Everest is located where in the atm.
What is the Troposphere?
300
Consists of different wavelengths.
What is radiation?
300
Land heats ____ ______ then water.
What is more rapidly?
300
This is the result of the changing sun angle and changing length of daylight.
What is seasons?
400
The ozone is located ______ km above the earth
What is 10-50km?
400
The atomosphere can be divided into 4 different layers. List the layers from bottom to top.
What are Troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere?
400
The percent reflected.
What is albedo?
400
True/False: Isotherms show temperature range in the Southern Hemishpere.
What is false?
400
This is the number of degrees that the Earth is tilted on its axis.
What is 23.5 degrees?
500
Air borne particules and gases that occur in consentration
What are air pollutentes?
500
In What layer of the atomosphere is the aurora located
What is the thermosphere
500
Radiation can travel through the vacuum of space.
What can radiation travel through?
500
Isotherms exhibit a latitude shift with the ____
What is seasons?
500
This is how many hours of daylight there are during the vernal and autumnal equinoxes.
What is 12 hours