What is Science?
Anything that has mass and volume.
What is matter?
What is the atmosphere?
The transfer of heat through direct contact.
What is conduction?
More energy than the light you can see is called __________.
What is ultraviolet radiation?
Smoke and other harmful materials that are added to the air.
What is air pollution?
Observations that are based on numbers or measurements.
What are quantitative observations?
The amount of mass in a given volume of a substance.
What is density?
The transfer of heat from place to place by the motion of gas or liquid.
What is convection?
Less energy than the light you can see is called __________.
What is infrared radiation?
Tiny particles or droplets that are mixed in with air.
What are particulates?
The amount of matter in an object.
What is mass?
Nitrogen, oxygen, argon, and carbon dioxide.
What are the main gases in the atmosphere?
The layers of the atmosphere, closest to farthest away.
What is the troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, and thermosphere.
The layer that protects life on Earth by absorbing harmful ultraviolet radiation.
What is the ozone layer?
Fossil fuels, manufacturing, tractors, construction, farming
What are human causes of pollution?
Observations that are based on the 5 senses.
What are qualitative observations.
As altitude increases, air becomes ___________.
What is thinner?
The two main things that happens to light with it reaches Earth.
What are reflected and absorbed?
Carbon dioxide, methane, water vapor, nitrous oxide.
What are the greenhouse gases?
Volcanoes, dust, pollen, salt, soil, and forest fires.
What are natural forms of pollution?
The amount of space something takes up.
What is volume?
What is decreases?
The characteristic that scientists use to define the 4 layers of the atmosphere.
What is temperature?
The process of gases absorbing and emitting infrared radiation, keeping energy in Earth's system.
What is the greenhouse effect?
What is irritation to the eyes, nose, throat, and lungs?