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Composition of the Atmosphere
Structure and Temperature of the Atmosphere
Earth-Sun Relationships
Heating the Atmosphere
Temperature Controls
100
This component protects life on Earth against harmful UV radiation from the sun
What is the ozone layer?
100

Which scientist proved the orbits of the planets were elliptical?

Johannes Kepler

100
The transfer of heat without requiring a medium to travel through
What is radiation?
100
The fraction of total radiation that is reflected by any surface
What is albedo?
200
The source of all clouds and precipitation
What is water vapor?
200
This first vertical layer of the atmosphere based on temperature is where all important weather phenomena occur
What is the troposphere?
200
This is the amount of tilt of Earth’s axis
What is 23.5 degrees?
200
The transfer of heat by mass movement or circulation within a substance
What is convection?
300
The state of the atmosphere at any given time and place
What is weather?
300
This third vertical layer of the atmosphere based on temperature ends at more than 80 kilometers above Earth’s surface
What is the mesosphere?
300
This color from the visible light spectrum has the shortest wavelength of all colors in the rainbow
What is violet?
400
Weather patterns in a region based on observations that have been collected over many years
What is climate?
400
The ozone is concentrated in this layer of the atmosphere
What is the stratosphere?
400
The heating of Earth’s atmosphere by long-wavelength radiation emitted by Earth’s surface
What is the greenhouse effect?
400

Land heats and cools more rapidly than this substance

What is water?

500
This gas makes up the largest component of Earth’s atmosphere
What is nitrogen?
500
The part of green plants that absorb solar radiation from the sun for energy during photosynthesis
What is chlorophyll?