The Atmosphere

Question 1

What is a mix of gases that surround a planet or a celestial body called?

Answer 1

Atmosphere

Question 2

What is Earth’s atmosphere made up of?

Answer 2

78% Nitrogen, 21% Oxygen, 0.9% Argon, and 0.1% Others

Question 3

What is a gas or molecule that is made up of three oxygen atoms called?

Answer 3

Ozone

Question 4

What is the process that occurs when gases in Earth’s atmosphere trap the Sun’s heat?

Answer 4

Greenhouse Effect

Question 5

A mixture of solid particles and liquid droplets found in the air are called?

Answer 5

Particulates

Question 6

What is the force per unit area that is exerted on a surface by the weight of the atmosphere?

Answer 6

Atmospheric Pressure

Question 7

What is the lowest layer of the atmosphere, in which temperature drops at a rate as altitude increases, where weather usually occurs?

Answer 7

Troposphere

Question 8

What is the layer that lies between the troposphere and the mesosphere, containing the ozone layer?

Answer 8

Stratosphere

Question 9

What is the layer that located above the stratopause and extending to an altitude of about 80km?

Answer 9

Mesosphere

Question 10

What layer is above the mesopause, and temperature increases as nitrogen and oxygen atoms absorb solar radiation?

Answer 10

Thermosphere

Question 11

What is the transfer of energy as heat through a material?

Answer 11

Conduction

Question 12

What is the process in which air, or other matter, rises or sinks due to differences in temperatures?

Answer 12

Convection

Question 13

What is the curving of a path of a moving object from an otherwise straight path due to Earth’s rotation?

Answer 13

Coriolis Effect

Question 14

What are the prevailing winds that flow towards the equator between 30* latitude and 0* latitude called?

Answer 14

Trade Winds