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Atmosphere
Atmosphere 2
Pollution
Air Pressure
Wild!!
100
The percentage of the atmosphere is made up of gases other than oxygen and nitrogen?
What is 1%
100
Layers of the atmosphere are classified according to changes in:
What is temperature!
100
Precipitation that contains more acid than normal.
What is acid rain.
100
As the column of mercury in a barometer rises, air pressure:
What is increases.
100
Today is:
What is Thurday
200
The gas found in the greatest amount in the atmosphere.
What is Nitrogen.
200
The ___________ layer contains almost all of the mass of the atmosphere.
What is troposphere.
200
The most air pollution comes from:
What is the burning of fossil fuels.
200
Has pressure and mass:
What is air.
200
The ____ of a mountaintop is it's distance above sea level.
What is altitude.
300
Air pressure ___________ as you rise upwards in the atmosphere.
What is decreases.
300
The layer of the atmosphere that protects Earth's surface from being hit by meteoroids.
What is the mesosphere.
300
How people in the United States can reduce air pollution:
What is use more public transportation.
300
Instruments used to measure air pressure:
What is barometers
300
The condition of Earth's atmosphere at a particular time and place is it's:
What is weather
400
A thin envelope of gases that surrounds Earth.
What is the Atmosphere!
400
Two lays of the thermosphere are:
What is ionosphere and exosphere.
400
Forms when particles in coal smoke combine with water droplets in humid air:
What is London-type smog
400
______ pushes in all directions, so it is balanced.
What is air pressure.
400
___________ results from the interactions of pollutants in the pressure of sunlight
What is photochemical smog.
500
Two ways the atmosphere helps living things survive on Earth:
What is protect us from UV radiation, prevents meteoroids from hitting earth, and or provides gasses that plants and animals need to live.
500
Earth's atmosphere is important to living things because it provides all _______ that living things need to _______.
What is gases and survive.
500
Harmful particles and gases in the air are known as:
What is pollution.
500
Air pressure is measured in inches of mercury or
What is millibars.
500
Density is calculated by dividing:
What is it's mass by it's volume.