1. Air and Atmosphere Heat Transfers Waves & Energy Air Pressure Air
Eleanor M. Savko
Heat
Transfers
Waves &
Energy
11/15/2018
Air Pressure
Air
Pollution
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2. This gas makes up 78% of Earth’s atmosphere…

3. What is nitrogen gas?

4. This layer of the atmosphere has the good ozone layer…

5. What is the stratosphere?

6. The boundary between the mesosphere and the thermosphere…

7. What is the mesopause?

8. The altitude where the thermosphere begins…

9. What is 80 km OR 50 miles?

10. This is what “tropo” means…

11. What is “changing?”

12. This method of heat transfer is through objects that are touching…

13. What is conduction?

14. This method of heat transfer is the driving force for plate tectonics…

15. What is convection?

16. This method of heat transfer explains why deserts are cold at night…

17. What is radiation?

18. This property explains why water heats and cools slowly…

19. What is specific heat?

20. This is the albedo of Earth…

21. What is 0.3?

22. What a wave moves through…

23. What is a medium?

24. The type of wave where the energy moves perpendicular to the direction of motion

25. What is a transverse wave?

26. The lower this is, the longer the wavelength

27. What is frequency?

28. The part of the visible light spectrum that has the highest frequency…

29. What is violet light?

30. The amount of energy it takes to get from D to E…

31. What is 2260 J/g?

32. This is what the pressure is like when it is stormy out…

33. What is low pressure?

34. This is the air pressure at sea level in atmospheres…

35. What is 1 atmosphere?

36. This is the commonly used instrument to measure air pressure…

37. What is an aneroid barometer?

38. The equivalent to 1000.0 mb in inches of mercury…

39. What is in Hg?

40. A high pressure center of dry air…

41. What is an anticyclone?

42. Ozone is bad when it is in this layer of the atmosphere…

43. What is the troposphere?

44. This is an ozone killer released from aerosol cans…

45. What are Chlorofluorocarbons?

46. This is the pH of natural rainwater…

47. What is 5.6?

48. This greenhouse gas is released from forest fires, cows and natural gas…

49. What is methane?

50. Shorter wavelengths of light like visible light and ultraviolet light turn into this when re-radiated from the ground.

51. What is infrared light?