Atmosphere Flashcards
Earth’s subsystems
interdependent hut funftions as abwhole
4 spheres
Atmosphere, Biosphere, Geosphere, Hydrosphere
whole world system
Good eartj
Earth systems can be
open, closed or isolated
Exchange mass and energy
Open
transferred energy but not mass
Closed
does not allow transfer of anything
Isolated
Greek “atmos”
Air
traps heat
Atmosphere
Absorbs and emits hear
Heat transfer
Snow came from
High clouds
Contains gases that living organisms need
Atmosphere
protects Earth’s surface from being struck by meteor
Atmosphere
Atmosphere composition
Nitrogen, Oxygen, Argon, Carbon dioxide
Nitrogen percent
78%
Oxygen percent
21%
other components perceht
0.9%
N2 is not usable unless in undergoes
Nitrogen fixation
23.5 tilt of the earth
Climate classi
Tropical region
0.30 def
Convection current or corralis effects
North-couhter, Siyth-clockwise
Hadsey
Low latitude
Hadsey types
Feral and Polar
Parts of Atmos
Troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, Thermosepgere, Expsphere
lowest layer of atmos, 75-80% mass of atmosphere
Troposphere
Almost all weather conditions occur in this layer
Tropo
ozone layer is here, little water vapor
Stratosphere
O3
Ozone
middle, meteors are burned here
Mesosphere
relatively high conce of iron and netal atoms
Mesosphere
hottest, sattelites and radio waves travel here
Thermosphere
satellite placement, very thin, low amt of gas
Exosphere
Temp and Distance is inversely prop
Layers of atmos
Tropo, Meso, Exo
the higher you go the colder
Pauses
stable weather is here
presence of CRC replaces ocygen in Ozone
Ozone depletion
removes CFC and HCTD Aerosolss, has solid particles
Montreal Protocol by UN
Trapping of heat, effect would be global waring
Greenhouse effect
try to decrease carbon dioxide emission
Kyito Principal
Clean air act of 1999
RA 8749
Tobacco regulation act of 2003
RA 8749
UVrad from sun interacts with Nitrogen Oxide ( NOd) and volatile compounds (VOCs)
Surface level ozone