Atmosphere Basics
What gas makes up the majority (78%) of Earth's atmosphere?
What is nitrogen?
In which layer do meteors usually burn up?
What is the mesosphere?
What gas do plants absorb during photosynthesis?
What is carbon dioxide?
What is the primary source of energy for Earth’s weather and climate?
What is the sun?
According to the Bible, what was Earth created to support?
What is life?
What gas do humans need in the atmosphere to survive?
What is oxygen?
Which layer contains the ozone layer?
What is the stratosphere?
What type of bacteria help convert nitrogen into usable forms for plants?
What are nitrogen-fixing bacteria?
What type of heat transfer occurs through direct contact?
What is conduction?
What layer of the atmosphere protects us from UV rays?
What is the ozone layer?
What is the name of the region where gases are well mixed by wind and weather?
What is the homosphere?
What happens to temperature as you go higher in the troposphere?
What is it decreases (gets colder)?
What natural event can also fix nitrogen into the soil?
What is lightning?
What do we call the process where warm air rises and cooler air sinks?
What is convection?
What invisible shield protects Earth from solar wind and radiation?
What is the magnetosphere?
What layer of the atmosphere contains the air we breathe and where weather happens?
What is the troposphere?
What is the outermost layer of the atmosphere called?
What is the exosphere?
What part of the carbon cycle returns CO₂ to the atmosphere from breathing and decay?
What is respiration or decomposition?
What type of energy does the Earth re-radiate as heat after absorbing sunlight?
What is infrared radiation?
What belt traps dangerous radiation in Earth’s magnetic field?
What are the Van Allen Belts?
What is the term for the thinning of the protective layer that blocks UV radiation?
What is the ozone hole?
Why doesn’t the thermosphere feel hot even though temperatures are high?
What is because air molecules are too far apart to transfer heat?
What biblical event may have changed the atmosphere by releasing gases?
What is the Flood?
What is the solar constant?
What is the measure of how much solar energy reaches Earth’s atmosphere?
Give two reasons why Earth’s atmosphere reflects God’s design.
What are its perfect gas mix for life and built-in protections like the ozone and magnetosphere?