Atmoshere Flashcards
What reflects all energy?
a. Black
b. White
c. Acid rain
b. White
What is it when liquid changes to a gas below it’s boiling point?
A. Evaporation
B. Hydrologic cycle
C. Acid rain
A. Evaporation
What is process where plants convert sunlight into oxygen and energy?
a. Thermosphere
b. Stratosphere
c. Photosynthesis
c. Photosynthesis
What are HCFC, Carbon dioxide, water vapor, CFC’s and methane examples?
a. Ozone
b. Green House gases
c. Fossil fuels
b. Green House gases
What is the layer in the atmosphere 30 miles up where they is little wind?
a. Thermosphere
b. Trophospere
c. Stratosphere
c. Stratosphere
What is the energy coming in from the sun?
a. Inward flow
b. Fossil fuel
c. Boyle’s Law
a. Inward flow
What is it when the pH of rain is lower than 5.4?
a. Acid rain
b. Heat capacity
c. Respiration
a. Acid rain
What absorbs all energy?
a. reflectivity
b. black
c. HCFC
b. black
What is coal, natural gas and gasoline examples of?
a. Green house effect
b. fossil fuel
c. CFC
b. Fossil fuels
What are propellants that are used in aerosol cans and as coolants in fridges and air conditioners?
a. Green house gases
b. CFC
c. black
b. CFC
What is process where we breathe out CO(2) into the air?
a. Outward flow
b. Heat capacity
c. Respiration
c. Respiration
What is the layer where we live - 6 miles up - where the weather takes place?
a. Thermosphere
b. Trophospere
c. Statosphere
b. Trophospere
What is another name for the water cycle?
a. Hydrologic cycle
b. Heat capacity
c. Green House gases
a. Hydrologic cycle
What is the process where a gas changes to a liquid?
a. Evaporation
b. Acid rain
c. Condensation
c. Condensation
What is the process of absorbing reflected energy in the atmosphere to warm the earth?
a. Reflectivity
b. Green house effect
c. HCFC
b. Green house effect
What is energy that is released back into space?
a. While
b. Fossil fuel
c. Outward flow
c. Outward flow
What is the layer of gas that surrounds the earth and protects us from UV rays?
a. Ozone
b. CFC
c. Photosynthesis
a. Ozone
What is produced when you replace a chlorine with a hydrogen on CFC’s?
a. Ozone
b. Green House gases
c. HCFC
c. HCFC
What is it when light strikes an object and is reflected back without heating up?
a. Heat capacity
b. Reflectivity
c. Respiration
b. Reflectivity
What states that pressure and volume are to be inversely proportional?
a. Boyles Law
b. Respiration
c. Evaporation
a. Boyles Law
What king of process is evaporation?
a. Heating
b. cooling
b. Cooling
What is the heat capacity of water?
a. 4.2
b. 4.1
a. 4.2
Where was acid rain first reported?
a. Germany
b. New England
c. Scandinavia
c. Scandinavia
Acid rain is rain below what pH?
a. 5.4
b. 5.0
a. 5.4
Photosynthesis and respiration are both??
a opposites
b. same
a. opposites
What gas has the highest percentage in the atmosphere?
a. Oxygen
b. Nitrogen
b. Nitrogen
How do UV ray affect the ozone?
a. split it
b. create it
b. create it
Which of the following uses the least amount of inward flow energy?
a. Photosynthesis
b. Wind cycle
a. Photosynthesis
What happens to the average temperature of the earth- if we did not have the green house gases?
a. Decrease
b. Increase
a. Decrease
What does asphalt do with energy?
a. absorb
b. refect
a. absorb
What does snow do with energy?
a. absorb
b. reflect
b. reflect
What kind of heat capacity does water have?
a. High
b. Low
a. High
When do CFC’s do damage?
a. near the ozone
b. Low in the atmosphere
a. near the ozone
Which of the following is not a green house gas?
a. Oxygen
b. Water vapor
a. Oxygen
Since 1800’s human activity has increased the amount of carbon dioxide in the air by how much?
a. 30%
b. 20%
a. 30%
On a hot day by the beach what kind of air comes from the ocean to the land?
a. Warm
b. Cool
b. Cool
On a hot day by the beach what kind of air moves out of the land?
a. Warm
b. Cool
a. Warm
If you have more holes in the atmosphere which of the following is true?
a. Less sunburn/cataracts
b. More food crop yields
c. damage to aquatic plants
d. all of the above
e. none of the above
c. damage to aquatic plants
Which does more damage?
a. CFC
b. HCFC
a. HCFC
How much are we raising the temperature of the earth each decade?
a. 1 degree
b. .3 degrees
b. .3 degrees
What will happen to coastal cities if we do not get green house gases under control?
a. Dry up
b. Flood
c. Hotter climate
b. Flood
Which of the following is the part of the atmosphere we live in?
a. Troposphere
b. Stratosphere
a. Troposphere
What is the atmosphere mostly made of?
a. Air
b. Ozone
c. Water vapor
d. a and b
e. b and c
f. c and a
f. c and a
Which of the following is the part of the atmosphere where radio waves travel?
a. Thermosphere
b. Troposphere
a. Thermosphere
What is the average temperature of the Earth?
a 59*
b. 63*
a. 59*
which of the following is a way to increase CO(2) in the air?
a. Burning trees
b. Crating cement
c. Cutting down trees
d. Burning fossil fuels
e. All of the above
f. None of the above
e. All of the above
Be able to draw and label the layers of the atmosphere - and write the distance that each layer is up in the air.
See Mrs. Krumpelman if need help
