What is the atmosphere? correct answers layer of gases that surround the Earth
What are the most abundant gases in the atmosphere? correct answers Nitrogen, Oxygen, Argon
What are permanent gases in the atmosphere? correct answers gases that remain constant (nitrogen and oxygen)
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What is the atmosphere? correct answers layer of gases that surround the Earth
What are the most abundant gases in the atmosphere? correct answers Nitrogen, Oxygen, Argon
What are permanent gases in the atmosphere? correct answers gases that remain constant
(nitrogen and oxygen)
What are variable gases in the atmosphere? correct answers fluctuate at any given time in the
atmosphere (water vapor, carbon dioxide)
How is carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere? correct answers the decay and exhalation of
animals
What is the greenhouse effect? correct answers Atmosphere heated up by the sun, heat cannot be
released and is held in the atmosphere
What are some greenhouse gases? correct answers Water Vapor, Methane, Ozone
How can density of air change? correct answers Varies depending on temperature and moisture
More moisture in the air make the air _____ dense correct answers LESS!
Name the layers of the atmosphere correct answers *starting at surface* Troposphere-
Stratosphere-Mesosphere-Thermosphere
Where are pauses located in the atmosphere and what are they named after? correct answers
Pauses separate the layers and are named after the layer you are LEAVING (Troposphere-
Tropopause-Stratosphere)
Definition: Lapse correct answers temp decreases with height
Definition: Inversion correct answers temp increases with height
What is the environmental lapse rate? correct answers 6.5° C/Km
Troposphere: Lapse OR Inversion correct answers Lapse, where weather occurs, contains most
Earth's mass
Stratosphere: Lapse OR Inversion correct answers Inversion, ozone layer, stable, little weather,
Mesosphere: Lapse OR Inversion correct answers Lapse
Thermosphere: Lapse OR Inversion correct answers Inversion
, WHY does temp warm in Stratosphere? correct answers Ozone layer, absorbs UV radiation
WHY does temp decrease in Troposphere? correct answers warmer at surface, the further away
air gets from surface the colder it gets
What is the difference between climate and weather? correct answers Weather is the conditions
in the atmosphere at a certain time and place, Climate is the accumulation of this weather over a
long period of time
Visible Satellite correct answers Satellite used to see where clouds are/are not, can only be used
during the day.
Infrared Satellite correct answers Satellite used to view clouds at different levels (taller clouds
brighter, lower clouds darker) can be used night and day
Water Vapor Satellite correct answers Satellite used to view where areas of moisture (bright) and
areas of dryness are, can be used during night and day
What is insolation? correct answers Incoming Solar Radiation, sun's energy that reaches the
Earth, various objects intercept energy
What is the solar constant value? correct answers 1kilowatt per meter²
In global radiation balance, what process does most shortwave energy go into? correct answers
Absorbed and reflected bc of albedo
Definition: Shortwave energy correct answers energy from the sun
Definition: Longwave energy correct answers energy from the Earth
Electromagnetic Spectrum in order from Longwave to Shortwave correct answers Radio-
Microwave-Infrared-Visible-Ultraviolet-Xrays-Gammarays
What part of EM spectrum can be seen by humans? correct answers visible spectrum
The sun emits which wavelength? correct answers visible
The Earth emits which wavelength? correct answers infrared
What is albedo? correct answers scientific term for relectivity
Object with high albedo? correct answers Fresh snow, reflect more absorb less
Object with low albedo? correct answers Dark roof, absorb more reflect less
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