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Question 1

Troposphere

Answer 1

A layer extending an average of 12km above Earth’s surface.

Question 2

Temperature Inversion

Answer 2

Occurs when air temperature increases with altitude and the air becomes stable.

Question 3

Greenhouse Effect

Answer 3

Is a natural process in which certain gases in the atmosphere warm a planet as they absorbed and emits infrared radiation

Question 4

How are the atmospheric layers divided?

Answer 4

Differences in the composition and texture

Question 4

How are the atmospheric layers divided?

Answer 4

Differences in the composition and texture

Question 5

What gas makes up the majority of the atmosphere?

Answer 5

78% nitrogen

Question 6

What gas makes up 21% of the atmosphere?

Answer 6

Oxygen

Question 7

What is the remaining 1% of gas in the atmosphere?

Answer 7

Trace gases while the majority is argon

Question 8

In the troposphere layer does temperature increase or decrease with temperature?

Answer 8

Decreases

Question 9

How many layers are there within the Earth’s atmosphere?

Answer 9

5

Question 10

What are the names of the atmospheric layers?

near far

Answer 10

Troposphere stratosphere thermosphere

Question 11

wHICH LAYER IS THE OZONE LAYER FOUND IN?

Answer 11

Stratosphere

Question 12

What are the three basic cloud types?

Answer 12

Stratus cumulus and cirrus

Question 13

Stratus cloud

Answer 13

Layered sheet like clouds

Question 14

Cumulus

Answer 14

Puffy

Question 15

Cirrus

Answer 15

Wispy and high altitude clouds

Question 16

What is the process called where water loved from the land to the atmosphere?

Answer 16

Water cycle

Question 17

What are the steps of the water cycle?

Answer 17

Transpiration condensation evaporation precipitation and infiltration run off and ground water