Energy and Earth Systems

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Musab Anzar
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What is Chloroflourocarbon? A chemical used in refrigeration, greenhouse gas, damaged ozone layer
What is Contrail? The long thin clouds created by the exhaust gases of high-flying jet aircraft.
What is Electromagnetic spectrum? A range of different forms of light and other energy carrying waves
Enhanced Green house effect Effect of increase in greenhouse gas concentration
Greenhouse effect the trapping of the sun's warmth in a planet's lower atmosphere, due to the greater transparency of the atmosphere to visible radiation from the sun than to infrared radiation emitted from the planet's surface.
Greenhouse gas a gas that contributes to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation. Carbon dioxide and chlorofluorocarbons are examples of greenhouse gases.
Nuclear Fusion nuclear fusion is a nuclear reaction in which two or more atomic nuclei come close enough to form one or more different atomic nuclei and subatomic particles
OZONE LAYER The ozone layer or ozone shield is a region of Earth's stratosphere that absorbs most of the Sun's UV.
Carbon Chemical Element, basis of life
Decomposer organisms that break down dead or decaying organisms,
Nitrogen gas that makes up 78 percent of the Earth
Phosophorus Chemical Element found mostly in rocks important for plants
Absolute Zero -273.15
Consumer Organism that eats other living organisms
Producer Green organism that gets its food through photosynthesis
Thermodynamics The study of the flow of energy
Crust uppermost thin layer of the earth
Innercore The solid innermost layer of Earth
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