Layers of the Atmosphere
a mixture of gases that surrounds a planet, moon, or other celestial body
What is the atmosphere?
the measure of the force with which air molecules push on a surface
What is air pressure?
All the bodies of freshwater, saltwater, ice, and snow that are found above the ground.
What is surface water?
An organized procedure to study something under controlled conditions.
This is Ms. Ruggiero's favorite color.
What is blue?
layer of the atmosphere that lies between the troposphere & the mesosphere and in which temperature increases as altitude increases; contains the ozone layer
What is the stratosphere?
As you go farther up a mountain what happens to the air pressure?
What is decreases?
The water that is beneath the Earth's surface.
What is groundwater?
A testable idea or explanation that leads to scientific investigation.
What is a hypothesis?
This is the force that pulls the atmosphere toward Earth.
What is gravity?
the uppermost layer of the atmosphere, in which temperature increases as altitude increases
What is the thermosphere?
As you go farther up a mountain, what happens to the temperature?
What is decreases?
A body of rock or sediment that stores groundwater and allows the flow of groundwater.
What is an aquifer?
In a scientific investigation, the factor that is deliberately manipulated.
What is the independent variable?
This is the powerhouse of the cell.
What is the mitochondria?
the lowest layer of the atmosphere, in which temperature drops at a constant rate as altitude increases; the part of the atmosphere where weather conditions exist
What is the troposphere?
What happens to the pressure as you go deep into the sea?
What is it increases?
Any movement of matter that results from differences in density; may be vertical, circular, or cyclical.
What is a convection current?
A condition or factor that is assumed to have one value, or remain unchanged, throughout a particular investigation.
What is a constant?
How many planets are in our solar system?
What is eight or nine?
the layer of atmosphere between the stratosphere and thermosphere & in which temperature decreases as altitude increases
What is the mesosphere?
What is a tool you can use to measure air pressure with?
What is a barometer?
Pollution comes from many sources rather than from a single specific site; an example is a pollution that reaches a body of water from streets and storm sewers.
What is non-point source pollution?
In a scientific investigation, the factor that changes as a result of manipulation of one or more independent variables.
What is the dependent variable?
This is the number of bones in an adult human body.
What is 206?