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?