Q2T1

Question 1

What is the third atmospheric layer from the ground called?

Answer 1

mesosphere

Question 2

What happens to the temperature as you go higher in the troposphere?

Answer 2

it gets colder

Question 3

What layer protects us by burning up most meteors?

Answer 3

mesosphere

Question 4

What happens to temperature as you go higher in the stratosphere?

Answer 4

it gets hotter

Question 5

what gas makes up 21% of the atmosphere?

Answer 5

oxygen

Question 6

What is an atmosphere?

Answer 6

shell of gas around a planet or moon

Question 7

What does the image we leader about in class that looks like a spider represent?

Answer 7

magnetosphere of the earth

Question 8

What does the ozone layer do?

Answer 8

it protects us from UV

Question 9

What is atmospheric layer closest to the ground called?

Answer 9

troposphere

Question 10

What is the order of the earths atmospheric layers from lowest to highest?

Answer 10

troposphere> stratosphere> mesosphere> thermosphere> exosphere

Question 11

True or False: The magnetosphere protects earth from receiving too much energy from the sun.

Answer 11

true

Question 12

True or False: Global warming had been a good thing but is now becoming a bad thing.

Answer 12

true

Question 13

Which layer of the atmosphere is the thickest?

Answer 13

thermosphere

Question 14

which layer of the atmosphere has an increase in temperature with an increase of in altitude because it contains the ozone layer which absorbs the suns energy?

Answer 14

stratosphere

Question 15

which layer in the atmosphere reaches from 500km above the earths surface to outer space and is the location of many orbiting satellites?

Answer 15

exosphere

Question 16

which layer of the atmosphere extends from 50km to 85km above the earths surface, has a decrease in temperature with an increase in altitude, and has meteors that can be seen from earth as shooting stars?

Answer 16

mesosphere

Question 17

which layer contains a section of electrically charged particles?

Answer 17

ionosphere

Question 18

Which scientist stated that temperature and volume were related?

Answer 18

Charles

Question 19

Which scientist stated that temperature and pressure were related?

Answer 19

Gay-Lussacs

Question 20

Which scientist stated that pressure and volume were related?

Answer 20

Boyle

Question 21

amount of space matter fills

Answer 21

volume

Question 22

average kinetic energy of molecules

Answer 22

temperature

Question 23

force per unit area

Answer 23

pressure

Question 24

layer of lowest temperature

Answer 24

stratosphere

Question 25

highest temperature layer

Answer 25

thermosphere

Question 26

highest air pressure layer

Answer 26

thermosphere

Question 27

a football taken outside where it deflates a bit is an example of the law of….

Answer 27

charles

Question 28

to use Charles’ Law, which of the following must remain constant?

Answer 28

pressure

Question 29

where does the radiation while on planes come from?

Answer 29

rays from space

Question 30

which is more dangerous a chest x-ray or a dental x-ray?

Answer 30

Chest

Question 31

how old is the sun?

Answer 31

4.5 billion years

Question 32

what reaction is occurring in the suns core?

Answer 32

fusion of hydrogen into helium

Question 33

How much of the entire solar system’s mass is contained in the sun alone?

Answer 33

99.8%

Question 34

what is true about the suns temperatures?

Answer 34

the core is hotter then the surface