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The most abundant gas in our atmosphere
What is nitrogen?
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The cause of the most polution
What is the burning of fossil fuels?
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The outermost layer of the atmosphere
What is the thermosphere?
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An instrument that measures air pressure.
What is a barameter?
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Harmful particles and gases in the air are known as...
What are pollutants?
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The gas state of water
What is water vapor?
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Rain that contains more acid than normal
What is acid rain?
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The layer of the atmosphere that contains the ozone layer
What is the stratosphere?
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The air is less dense air here and contains fewer oxygen molecules
What is higher altitude?
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Protection from meteriods and dangerous radiation as well as providing gases that plants and animals need to survive are examples of...
What are ways our atmosphere helps living things to survive on Earth?
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Ozone is the result of this form of Oxygen
What is 3 Oxygen atoms?
300
Carpooling is an example of this
What is an effective way to reduce pollution?
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The layer of the atmosphere where the weather occurs
What is the troposphere?
300
This type of barameter has an airtight metal chamber
What is an aneriod barameter?
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This action allows water to exist in a liquid form
What is the result of Earth's atmosphere trapping energy from the sun?
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The condition of Earth's atmosphere at a particular time and place
What is weather?
400
The largest source of pollution
What is cars and other motor vehicles?
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Scientists didvided the atmosphere into 4 different layers based on this criteria.
What is the temperature?
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Density can be defined as...
What is the amount of mass in a given volume of air?
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The percentage of all other gases besides nitrogen and oxygen in our atmosphere.
What is one percent?
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The envelope of gases that surround the Earth.
What is the atmosphere?
500
A type of pollution formed by the action of sunlight on pollutants such as hydrocarbons and nitrogen oxides
What is photochemical smog?
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A layer that protects living things from harmful radiation
What is the ozone layer?
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The result of this action causes the column of mercury in a barameter to rise
What is an increase in air pressure?
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Air pressure does this as you go higher in the atmosphere
What is decrease?