Final

Question 1

What is the relationship between weather and climate?

Answer 1

Weather is constantly changing and refers to the state of the atmosphere at any given time or place, while climate is the sum of alll weather information that helps describe a place or reigon.

Question 2

What is water vapor the source of?

Answer 2

Water vapor is the source of all clouds and precipitation.

Question 3

If the ozone did not filter most UV radiation what would happen?

Answer 3

Earth would be uninhabitable to many living organisms.

Question 4

Where does that atmosphere thin and why?

Answer 4

The atmosphere thins as you travel away from Earth because there are fewer gases.

Question 5

What are the layers of the atmosphere from top to bottom?

Answer 5

Troposphere

Mesosphere

Stratusphere

Thermosphere

Question 6

Why do seasonal changes occur?

Answer 6

The tilt of Earth’s axis as it revoles around the sun.

Question 7

Ozone

Answer 7

Molecule of oxygen containing 3 oxygen atoms

Question 8

Troposhere

Answer 8

The lowermost layer of the atmosphere; charecterized bybthe decrease of temperature with height.