Show:
The Air Around
You
Air Pressure
Layers of the Atmosphere
Air Quality
Hodge Podge
100
The condition of Earth's atmosphere at a given time and place is called ______________
What is weather?
100
___________ is equal to the mass of an object divided by its volume (mass/volume)
What is density?
100
The four main layers of Earth's atmosphere are classified according to changes in _____________
What is temperature?
100
Harmful substances that can be found in the air, water, and soil are known as ______________
What is pollutants?
100
The outermost layer of the atmosphere is the _____________________
What is the thermosphere?
200
The envelope of gases that surrounds Earth is known as the ________________
What is atmosphere?
200
The weight of the atmosphere pushing down on an area is known as _________________
What is air pressure?
200
The four main layers of Earth's atmosphere are the troposphere, the stratosphere, the mesosphere, and the ______________
What is the thermosphere?
200
Most air pollution is caused by ______________
What is the burning of fossil fuels.
200
This is the word that comes from combining the words "smoke" and "fog."
What is smog?
300
The smallest unit of a chemical element that can exist by itself is _________________
What is an atom?
300
An instrument used to measure air pressure is a _________
What is a barometer?
300
The layer of the atmosphere where Earth's weather occurs is the _______________
What is troposphere?
300
The brown haze that hangs over many cities is known as _________________
What is (photochemical) smog?
300
The prefix "photo-" in "photochemical smog" means ____________
What is "light"?
400
A form of oxygen that has three oxygen atoms in each molecule is called __________
What is ozone?
400
The distance above sea level is known as _________
What is altitude?
400
The ozone layer is located in the _______________
What is stratosphere?
400
The erosion of many statues that appear on the outside of buildings is mainly due to _______________
What is acid rain?
400
The layer of the atmosphere in which you can see an aurora is the _______________
What is ionosphere?
500
Water in the form of gas is called _________
What is water vapor?
500
As altitude increases, air pressure _______________
What is decreases?
500
The _____________ is the layer that protects Earth's surface from meteoroids?
What is the mesosphere?
500
Almost half of the pollution in the air comes from _________________
What is motor vehicles?
500
As air pressure decreases, density _____________
What is decreases?