The average weather in a particular area over a long period of time.
What is climate?
100
Three molecules of oxygen chemically bonded together.
What is Ozone?
100
Oxygen is essential to life.
What is respiration?
100
Carbon Dioxide
Methane
Water Vapor
What is greenhouse gasses?
200
A scientist who studies weather conditions using radar, satellites, and other instruments to make weather maps and forecasts.
What is a Meteorologist
200
The behavior of the atmosphere at a particular place and time (wind, temperature, pressure, precipitation).
What is weather?
200
It is located in the stratosphere. Here it protects us from solar radiation.
What is Ozone layer?
200
Oxygen is a waste product of plant life.
What is photosynthesis?
200
Mixture of pollutants and water vapor in the atmosphere.
What is smog?
300
A mixture of gasses that surrounds the planet
What is atmosphere
300
A large, swirling, low-pressure system that forms over tropical oceans; winds must be at least 120 km/h.
What is a hurricane?
300
It is a harmful pollutant when found in the lower atmosphere. It causes damage to lung tissue and plants. It is a major part of smog.
What is the Ozone can be harmful?
300
The two main gasses that make up Earth's atmosphere today are Nitrogen (78%) and Oxygen (21%).
What is the composition today?
300
Natural heating caused by atmospheric gasses trapping heat at Earth's surface.
What is greenhouse effect?
400
The early atmosphere was poisonous and had very little oxygen
What is the early atmosphere
400
Form because of warm, moist air forced to rise higher in the atmosphere where it condenses into large clouds which produce great quantities of precipitation.
What is a thunderstorm?
400
It is produced naturally when solar radiation in the upper atmosphere.
What is production of Ozone?
400
The movement of carbon and oxygen atoms through the atmosphere to plants, animals, decomposers, and back into the atmosphere.
What is the carbon/oxygen cycle?
400
Ice caps melt
Ocean levels rise
Coastal cities flood
Larger deserts
Extinction of species
What are the effects of global warming?
500
Water vapor (H2O), carbon dioxide (CO2), and nitrogen (N) were vented from volcanic eruptions over hundreds of millions of years.
What is Outgassing?
500
A violent, whirling, funnel-shaped windstorm, with winds up to 500km/hour that moves in a narrow path over land.
What is tornado?
500
Substances that were formerly used in spray cans, refrigerators, and air conditioners. Can cause a loss of ozone in the upper atmosphere.
What is chlorofluorocarbons?
500
3.5 billion years ago, microscopic plants in the ancient oceans started putting oxygen into the atmosphere through photosynthesis.
What is life changes the air?
500
Most of this in the atmosphere comes from the burning of fossil fuels that produce oxides of nitrogen and volatile organic compounds.