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What percent of our atmosphere is made up of gases other than oxygen and nitrogen? |
1% |
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Instrument used to measure air pressure. |
Barometer |
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The less mass in a given volume of air, what happens? |
The air pressure decreases and becomes less dense. |
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Weather occurs in what layer? |
Troposphere. |
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Coriolis Effect |
When Earth's rotation makes global winds curve. |
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Pressure does what when you rise up in the atmosphere? |
Decreases. So does density. |
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Main layers in are atmosphere from the Earth to space are: |
Troposphere, Stratosphere, Mesosphere, Thermosphere, Exosphere. |
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Cool air tends to be |
more dense than warmer air. |
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Greenhouse effect: |
Process by which radiation from a planet's atmosphere warms the planet's surface to a temperature above what it would be without its atmosphere. |
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What is the instrument that is used to measure how hot or cold the air is. |
Thermometer |
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Name of the molecule that is made up of three oxygen atoms. |
Ozone |
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Scientists divide Earth's atmosphere into four main layers classified according to changes in what? |
Temperature. |
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Uneven heating of the atmosphere leads to differences in what? (Causing wind) |
Air |
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What layer do we live in? |
Biosphere |
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On which scale is the freezing point of pure water 0? |
Kevin/Celcius |
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Dry air is 78% nitrogen and 21% what? |
Carbon dioxide |