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Atmospheric Composition
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- 1Atmospheric Composition (%)Nitrogen = 78%
Oxygen = 21%
Argon = 0.9%
Trace Gases = .1% - 2Trace GasesPrimarily Carbon Dioxide (GHG)
Other Greenhouse Gases such as Methane and Water Vapor - 3Why do we have an AtmosphereGravity
- 4Air has ____Mass
- 5less air with higher altitudes = ____ pressureless
- 6Pressure exponentially _____ with increasing altitudedecreases
- 7The peak of Mt. Everest lies above ___% of air molecules70
- 8Atmospheric layers are separated by ____, ______, and ______temperature, chemical reaction, density
- 9sphere = _____layer
- 10-pause = ____boundary
- 11Order of atmospheric layers + pausestroposphere, tropo-pause, stratosphere, strato-pause, mesosphere, meso-pause, thermosphere
- 12troposphere is the ____ layerbottom most
- 13we live in what layer?the troposphere
- 14what layer does weather occurs?the troposphere
- 15tropo- = _____temperature
- 16_____ is where weather balloons burst in this layer.stratosphere
- 17Temperature ____ with heightincreases
- 18location of the ozone zoneStratosphere
- 19Mesosphere is the ____ layerColdest
- 20Temperature ____ with height in the mesospheredecreases
- 21Layer where meteors burn upMesosphere
- 22thermosphere has the ____ temperatureshottest
- 23Thermosphere is where the ____ occurnorthern lights
- 24How are the northern lights formedInteraction with SolarWinds with magnetic fields
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- 9th grade Environmenal Science (Weather) Flashcards on Atmospheric Composition, created by Caitlyn Drago on 05/12/2022.
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