Chapter 28.1

Question 1

A layer extending an average of 12 km above the Earthś surface.

Answer 1

Troposphere

Question 2

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

Answer 2

Temperature Inversion

Question 3

Is a natural process in which certain gases in the atmosphere warm a planet as they absorb and emit infrared radiation.

Answer 3

Greenhouse Effect

Question 4

How Are the earth’s atmosphereic is divided

Answer 4

Based on composition and temperature

Question 5

What gas make up the majority of the atmosphere

Answer 5

Nitrogen 78%

Question 6

What is the second most abundant gas found in the atsmophere

Answer 6

Oxygen 21%

Question 7

What is the 1% of the other gases called

Answer 7

Trace Gases, the bulk of the 1 % is mainly Argon

Question 8

In the troposphere layers does the temp decrease or increase with the altitude.

Answer 8

Decrease

Question 9

What are the names of the atmosphere starting at the earths surface

Answer 9

troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere and exosphere

Question 10

Which layer is the ozone found in

Answer 10

2 one Stratosphere

Question 11

Does the temp increase or decrease with the altitude

Answer 11

Inceases

Question 12

Does the temp. increase or decrease during the mesosphere

Answer 12

Decrease until it gets to the higher level then it decreases

Question 13

Does the thermosphere and exosphere impact weather

Answer 13

No

Question 14

Where does 100% Earth Solar Radiation Come From

Answer 14

The Sun

Question 15

What % does solar radiation absorbed by Earth Surface

Answer 15

50%

Question 16

What % of solar radiation is reflected off Earths surface.

Answer 16

5%

Question 17

What % of solar radiation is absorbed by particles in the atmosphere.

Answer 17

20%

Question 18

What % of solar radiation is reflected back by particles in the atmosphere.

Answer 18

25%

Question 19

What are the 3 basic cloud types

Answer 19

cirrus, cumulus and stratus.

Question 20

Explain Stratus clouds.

Answer 20

There layered sheet like clouds and rain.

Question 21

Explain Cumulus Clouds

Answer 21

Puffy and occur, Nice day but can cause rain.

Question 22

Explain Cirrus Clouds.

Answer 22

They are high-altitude clouds.

Question 23

What are the processes were water from the land enters the atsophere and eventually falls back to the land.

Answer 23

Water cycle

Question 24

What are all the steps to the water cycle\

Answer 24

evaporation, condensation, and precipitation.