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Composition
Layers 1
Layers 1
Greenhouse Gas Effect
Relationships and Measurements
100
A mixture of gases that surrounds a planet, such as Earth.
What is atmopshere
100
Layer with the most air pressure 

Troposphere 

100

The 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 troposphere

100

What common trace gas in the atmosphere is the main byproduct of burning fossil fuels?

Carbon Dioxide

100

Altitude is...

distance above sea level 

200
The transfer of energy as heat through a material.
What is conduction
200

A layer of atmosphere located between the mesosphere and troposphere.

What is the stratosphere?

200

Colored light produced by charged particles from solar wind and from the magnetosphere that react with the oxygen and nitrogen of Earth’s atmosphere.

What is auroras 

200

These gases are term involved in absorbing and holding the earth's heat.  Sometimes called greenhouse gases.  (name at least one)

What are Carbon Dioxide (CO2  and water vapor, CH4, NO2)

200

The relationship between altitude and air pressure.

When altitude increases, air pressure decreases.  This is an inverse relationship.

300

A gas molecule that is made up of three oxygen atoms.

What is ozone

300
The coldest layer of the atmosphere, between the stratosphere and the thermosphere, in which temperature decreases as altitude increases.
What is mesosphere
300
The layer of the atmosphere in which temperature increases as altitude increases; contains the ozone layer.
What is stratosphere
300
How does the Greenhouse effect play a role in global warming? 

As humans emit more greenhouse gases, more heat is retained. This increases the annual average temperature across the globe. 

300

The layer within the atmosphere that absorbs harmful UV radiation from the sun.

What is the ozone layer?

400

The atmosphere is divided into 4 different layers due to...

What is... change in temperature as compared to altitude.

400
The uppermost layer of the atmosphere, in which temperature increases as altitude increase; includes the ionosphere.
What is thermosphere
400

Flying chunks of solid material (meteors) are found in the...

mesosphere 

400

Time periods of relatively cool temperatures across the globe; a result of low greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere.

What are Ice Ages?


400

Relationship among altitude and temperature in mesosphere

As altitude increases, temperature decreases

500

What are the three most common gases found in the atmosphere (in order)

- Nitrogen        78%

- Oxygen        21%

- Argon     1%

500
Draw the 5 layers AND pauses in the atmosphere 

PICTURE 

500

The layer with the least air pressure.

What is the Exosphere?

500

Outside of burning fossil fuels, name two sources of greenhouse gas emissions (CO2, Water Vapor, CH4)

1. Agriculture (animals specifically)

2. Respiration

3. Evaporation

4. Transpiration

5. Volcanic Eruptions

500

Relationship between altitude and air density

When altitude increases, density decreases.  This is an inverse relationship.