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Atmosphere Test Review
Fill in the following chart about the layers of the atmosphere. (10 points)
Temperature
Layer of the
Elevation
What happens there
increases or
Atmosphere
(Miles or km)
decreases
1. The most abundant gas in the atmosphere is _____________________ and the second most abundant
gas in the atmosphere is ________________________.
2. What is the percentage of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere? ___________
3. What is the greenhouse effect? __________________________________________________________
4. Circle the gases that are greenhouse gases? CH₄ CO₂ O₂
N₂
H₂O SO₂
N₂O
Ar O₃
5. Explain how earth would be different without any greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
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6. What is the difference between weather and climate? _________________________________________
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7. What is meteorology? ________________________________________________________________
8. Which instrument measures temperature? _____________________
9. Which instrument measures humidity? _____________________
10. Which instrument measures air pressure? _____________________
11. Which instrument measures precipitation? _____________________
12. Can warm or cold air hold more water vapor? _____________________
13. Why does air pressure decrease as you increase in elevation? (go up in the mountains)
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14. What happens to most of the incoming solar radiation from the Sun?
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15. What is conduction? __________________________________________________________________
16. What is convection? _________________________________________________________________
17. What is radiation? ___________________________________________________________________
18. What does the ozone layer do? __________________________________________________________
19. Explain how earth would be different without any ozone in the atmosphere.
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20. What causes the depletion of the ozone layer? ________________________________________
21. Where is the “good” ozone layer found? _______________________________
22. What does the “good” ozone layer do? ____________________________________________________
23. Where is the “bad” ozone layer found? _______________________________
24. What does the “bad” ozone layer do? _____________________________________________________
25. Why is it bad if the ozone layer gets depleted more? _________________________________________
26. What causes the magnetic field? ________________________________________________________
27. What does the magnetic field protect earth from? ____________________________________________
28. Explain how earth would be different without a magnetic field.
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29. What is the aurora borealis caused by?
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30. How does a cloud form? ______________________________________________________________
31. What is cloud seeding? _______________________________________________________________
32. Clouds are classified by their ___________________ and ____________________
33. What do the following word parts mean?
a. Stratus: _______________________
d. Alto: __________________________
b. Cumulus: _____________________
e. Nimbus: ________________________
c. Cirrus: ________________________
34. Describe the following cloud types:
a. Stratocumulus: ______________________________________________________
b. Nimbostratus: _______________________________________________________
c. Cirrostratus: _________________________________________________________
d. Cirrocumulus: ________________________________________________________
e. Altostratus: __________________________________________________________
f. Cumulonimbus: ______________________________________________________
g. Altocumulus: ________________________________________________________