Describing Earth's Atmosphere
This is the most abundant gas in Earth's current atmosphere
What is nitrogen?
Gasses like water vapor and carbon dioxide are examples of ________________ and can cause an increase in global temperatures
What are greenhouse gasses?
Due to the tilt of the Earth there is a _______________ heating of Earth surface
What is unequal/uneven?
This layer is found in the stratosphere and is responsible for blocking the sun's harmful rays.
What is the Ozone Layer?
This layer of the atmosphere is where we live
What is the troposphere?
These two layers of the atmosphere are often lumped together and protect Earth from meteorites
What are the mesosphere and thermosphere?
This absorbs about half of the energy from the sun that reaches Earth
What is the Earth's surface?
This causes the Coriolis Effect
What is Earth's Rotation?
This % of energy from the sun is reflected by land and sea surfaces on Earth
What is 5%
This is when energy is transferred from one object to another through direct contact
What is conduction?
The auroras are a colorful display of lights that exist in this part of the atmosphere
What is the ionosphere?
This occurs when air in the upper troposphere is warmer than air in the lower troposphere
What are temperature inversions?
These exist near the top of the troposphere is a narrow band of high winds
These are the two (2) near visible lights that make up the rest of the energy that Earth receives from the sun.
What are Ultra Violet (UV) and Infrared Radiation (IR)?
This is an ordered series of actions
What is a process?
This process added oxygen to the Earth's early atmosphere
What is photosynthesis?
This is when energy is transferred through electromagnetic waves
What is radiation?
Warm air rises because it is ___________ than cool air
What is less dense?
This is the phenomenon that happens at 30N and 30S due to the sinking, cold, high pressure air.
What are the Doldrums?
This is wind that blows from the sea to land due to local temperature and pressure differences
What is a Sea Breeze?
This gas is beneficial gas in the stratosphere but is considered a pollutant at ground level
What is Ozone?
This is defined as air moving across a mountain range
What is a mountain wave?
Trade winds, westerlies, and polar easterlies are found in both the northern and southern hemisphere and make up this model
What is the three cell model?
This is the main gas in smog; at ground level, this gas can harm the tissues of plants and animals.
What is ozone?
This is when a land breeze would happen.
What is night?
This is the layer of the atmosphere where gas molecules move fastest because they are so far apart.
What is the Exosphere?
This is the name for when the transfer of heat leads to water changing phase.
What is Latent Heat?
The first and third global wind cells are controlled by convection. This is what controls the second wind cell.
What is the movement of the other 2 cells (first and third)?
This is the layer of the atmosphere that houses ALL weather.
What is the Troposphere?
This is the name of water in its gaseous phase.
What is water vapor?
This is a thin layer of gasses that surrounds the Earth.
What is the Atmosphere?
This is the phenomenon where gasses in the atmosphere reflect thermal energy (heat) back towards earth.
What is the Greenhouse Effect?
This is the direction that moving air and water appear to turn in the SOUTHERN hemisphere.
What is to the LEFT?
This is the % of the sun's energy that that is reflected back into space by clouds and particles in the atmosphere.
What is 25%
This is what the sun's radiation is turned into when it is absorbed by particles on Earth.
What is Thermal Energy (Heat)?