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Atmosphere Characteristics
Layers of the Atmosphere
Heat Transfer
Temperture Control
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This constantly changes and refers to the state of the atmosphere at any given time and place.
What is weather?
100
Thins as you travel away from Earth until there are too few gas molecules to detect.
What is Atmosphere?
100
The energy transferred from one object to another because of difference in temperatures.
What is heat?
100
Name 2 out of 4 ways temperature varies.
What is Land and Water; Geographic Position; Altitude; Cloud Cover and Albedo?
100
Energy from the water cycle comes from this.
What is the Sun?
200
The most abundant gas in the atmosphere.
What is nitrogen?
200
In order from bottom to top name the spheres.
What is Troposhere, Stratosphere, Mesosphere, and Themosphere?
200
Name the three mechanisms of energy transfer as heat.
What is conduction,convection, and radiaton?
200
Heats more rapidly, cools more quickly at lower and higher temperatures.
What is Land?
200
Ground water is located here.
What is zone of saturation?
300
The source of all clouds and precipitation.
What is water vapor?
300
Based on this the atmosphere can be divided vertically into four layers.
What is Temperture?
300
Occurs when an electromagnetic wave bounces off an object.
What is Reflection?
300
Any factor that causes temperture to vary from place to place and from time to time.
What is Temperture Control?
300
Downward movement of a blockof material along a curved surface.
What is slump?
400
A form of oxygen that combines three oxygen atoms into each molecule.
What is Ozone?
400
Maximum Ozone is located here.
What is Stratosphere?
400
Earth would not be a suitable habitat for most types of living things without this.
What is greenhouse effect?
400
Are lines that connect points that have the same temperature.
What is Isotherms?
400
This year, the nuclear power plant disaster at Chernobyl took place on April 26, ____.
What is 1986?
500
21% of this gas is in Earths atmosphere.
What is Oxygen?
500
Above the Thermosphere.
What is Exosphere?
500
This mechanism of heat transfer doesn't require a medium.
What is radiation?
500
Is the fraction of total radiation that is reflected by any surface.
What is Albedo?
500
Earth can be thought of as consisting of four major spheres, name them.
What is Hydrosphre, Atmosphere, Geosphere, and Biosphere?