Science

Cards (21)

  • Nitrogen makes un what percentage of the atmosphere? 78%
  • What causes a brown haze near Aries?
    Car exhast
  • Which is the uppermost layer of the atmosphere?
    Exosphere
  • What layer of the atmosphere has the most water?
    Troposphere
  • what makes the rotation of earth to cause moving air and water to appear to turn to the right north of the equator and to the left south of the equator?
    Coriolis effect
  • What causes narrow belts of strong winds?
    Jet stream
  • Is created during the day because solar radiation warms the land more than the water
    Sea breeze
  • Is the movement of air toward the water from the land.
    Land breeze
  • Is the movement of air from an area of higher pressure to an area of lower pressure
    Wind
  • Is less dence, so it is displaced by denser, colder air, creating convection currents
    Heated air is formed
  • Is an imaginary line that wraps around Earth at 0° latitude, halway between the north an south poles
    The equator
  • Chlorofluorocarbons(CFCs) are dangerous because they destroy the?
    ozone layer
  • The thin layer of air that surrounds Earth is called?
    the Atmosphere
  • Heat energy transferred in the formed of waves is called?
    Radiation
  • The ozone layer helps protect us from?
    ultraviolet radiation
  • what protects living things from to much Ultraviolet radiation?
    The Ozone layer
  • Where is air pressure least?
    Exosphere
  • What type of wind is a movement Of air Toward water?
    Land breeze
  • Which layer of the atmosphere contains the Ozone?
    Stratosphere
  • Which atmospheric layer contains weather?
    Troposphere
  • What process changes water vapor to a liquid?
    Condensation