Atmosphere 1
A mixture of gases that surrounds a planet, such as Earth.
What is atmopshere?
The uppermost layer of the atmosphere in which temperature increases as altitude increases.
What is thermosphere?
The coldest layer of the atmosphere in which temperature decreases as altitude increases.
What is mesosphere?
The second most dense layer of the atmosphere in which temperature increases as altitude increases.
What is the stratosphere?
The densest layer of the atmosphere in which temperature drops at a constant rate as altitude increases.
What is the troposphere?
Solid particles in the atmosphere that can be volcanic dust, ash from fires, microscopic organisms, or mineral particles lifted from soil by winds.
What are particulates?
A gas molecule that is made up of three oxygen atoms.
What is ozone?
What percentage of the solar energy that comes to our upper atmosphere actually arrives at the earth's surface
What is 50%?
Colored light in the Thermosphere produced by charged particles from solar wind.
What are the auroras?
The process in which carbon dioxide becomes energy which plants can use.
What is photosynthesis?
The region in the thermosphere and mesosphere where solar radiation is absorbed by atmospheric gases that causes the atoms of gas molecule to become electrically charged.
What is ionosphere?
These gasses trap heat around Earth's surface.
What are greenhouse gasses?
The direction in which all air moves.
What is from high pressure to low pressure?
These are the two most influential gases involved in absorbing and holding the earth's heat.
What are Carbon Dioxide and Water Vapor?
The process by which fresh water is stored in underground aquifers.
What is infiltration?
The movement of matter due to differences in density that are caused by temperature variations. Rising hot air.
What is convection?
A narrow band of strong winds that blow in the upper troposphere.
What is the jet stream?
This gas has the greatest influence on maintaining atmospheric pressure.
What is Nitrogen? (N2)
Most of the radiant energy from the sun that reaches the earth's surface is in the visible light and ___________ wavelengths.
What is infrared?
The process by which plants pass carbon dioxide back into the atmorphere.
What is respiration?
The transfer of energy as heat through a material.
What is conduction?
The common nickname for the Troposphere.
What is the weather layer?
These winds blow constantly in the same direction.
What are the global winds?
As a result of this phenamena, winds in the northern and southern hemispheres shift to the right and left of their direction of motion.
What is the Coriolis Effect?
The process by which solid ice becomes water vapor.
What is sublimation?