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What gases compose the atmosphere? - ✔✔- Nitrogen
- Oxygen
- Argon
- Carbon Dioxide
Thermosphere - ✔✔the region of the atmosphere above the mesosphere and below the
height at which the atmosphere ceases to have the properties of a continuous medium
Mesosphere - ✔✔Where most meteorites burn up upon entering the atmosphere
Stratosphere - ✔✔- Temperature increases w/altitude, due to the ozone layer
- The Ozone Layer
- Absorbs and scatters the sun's UV radiation
- Protects living things
Troposphere - ✔✔- Thinnest layer but contains the most mass
- Weather takes place here
Ozone layer - ✔✔- Formed by oxygen/ozone cycle
- Blocks much harmful UV radiation
CFCs - ✔✔chlorofluorocarbons (synthetic gases)
, Montreal Protocol - ✔✔made CFCs illegal
Emissions - ✔✔- No fuel, no combustion
- CO2 and CH4 may be emitted in some types of hydropower
Industrial Smog - ✔✔forms from the combination of complete and incomplete combustion
of coal or oil
Photochemical smog - ✔✔forms when sunlight causes industrial pollutants to undergo a
chemical reaction
Photosynthetic organisms - ✔✔convert carbon dioxide gas into biomass
Decomposition - ✔✔liberates carbon stored in biomass so that it can be "recycled" and used
again
Fossil Fuels - ✔✔- 300-900 million years to form
- heat, pressure, aquatic biomass needed to form
Diffusion - ✔✔CO2 leaves ocean, enters atmosphere
Dissolution - ✔✔CO2 leaves atmosphere, enters ocean
global warming - ✔✔one aspect of climate change; the average temperature increased
climate change - ✔✔includes all of the ramifications of the increase in average temperature
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