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3. Layers of the Atmosphere
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The Air Around You
Air Pressure
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4. The Air Around You for 200
The percentage of oxygen in the atmosphere is approximately _____________
What is 21 percent?
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5. The Air Around You for 400
A gas in the atmosphere that varies in different places and from time to time is __________________
What is water vapor?
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6. The Air Around You for 600 What is Nitrogen? Back to Jeopardy
__________________ is the most abundant gas in the atmosphere.
What is Nitrogen?
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7. The Air Around You for 800 What is oxygen? Back to Jeopardy
Fires need _________________ to burn.
What is oxygen?
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8. Air Pressure for 200
The amount of mass in a given volume of a substance is its _____________.
What is density?
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9. Air Pressure for 400 What is decreases? Back to Jeopardy
As the density of air decreases, its pressure ______________________.
What is decreases?
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10. Air Pressure for 600
Air pressure is often measured in _________________ or inches of mercury.
What is millibars?
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11. Air Pressure for 800 What is pressure? Back to Jeopardy
______________ is the force per unit area.
What is pressure?
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12. Layers of the Atmosphere for 200
The four main layers of the atmosphere are classified according to changes in ______________________.
What is temperature?
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13. Layers of the Atmosphere for 400
The stratosphere helps protect Earth from too much ultraviolet radiation because this layer of the atmosphere contains _________________
What is ozone?
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14. Layers of the Atmosphere for 600
The warmest layer of the atmosphere is the _____________________.
What is thermosphere?
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15. Layers of the Atmosphere for 800
The layer of the atmosphere that reflects radio waves is the ________________.
What is the thermosphere?
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16. Air Quality for 200
Harmful substances in the air, water, or soil are called ________________.
What are pollutants?
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17. Air Quality for 400
Particles of carbon that enter the air when wood or coal are burned are called _____________________.
What is soot?
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18. Air Quality for 600
One cause of acid rain is the burning of coal that contains a lot of _________.
What is sulfur?
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19. Air Quality for 800
Photochemical smog is caused by the action on chemicals of __________.
What is sunlight?
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20. Vocabulary Words for 200
________________ is the condition of earth’s atmosphere at a particular time and place.
What is weather?
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21. Vocabulary Words for 400
Over the past 30 years, ________ ____________ in the United States has generally improved.
What is air quality?
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22. Vocabulary Words for 600
Air pressure decreases as _____________ increases.
What is altitude?
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23. Vocabulary Words for 800
These colorful light displays occur in the ionosphere.
What are auroras?
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24. Capture the Chapter for 200
This is the name of the scientific instrument that measures air pressure
What is a barometer?
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25. Capture the Chapter for 400
This material is helpful in the stratosphere, but harmful in the troposphere.
What is ozone?
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26. Capture the Chapter for 600
By improving this, we would be able to reduce health costs because people would have fewer respiratory problems.
What is air quality?
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27. Capture the Chapter for 800
At high altitudes, pilots must wear oxygen masks because the air here has low pressure and _________________.
What is density?
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32. Layers of the Atmosphere
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The Air Around You
Air Pressure
Layers of the Atmosphere
Air Quality
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33. The Air Around You for 400
Each molecule of ozone contains this many oxygen atoms.
What are three?
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34. The Air Around You for 800
Our atmosphere is important because it helps makes conditions on Earth suitable for __________ _________.
What are living things?
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35. The Air Around You for 1200
Carbon dioxide and _____________ are the next two most abundant gases in the atmosphere behind nitrogen and oxygen.
What is argon?
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36. The Air Around You for 1600
This is the percent by volume of hydrogen in dry air.
What is %?
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37. Air Pressure for 400
_________ _________ is the result of the weight of a column of air pushing down on an area.
What is air pressure?
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38. Air Pressure for 800
As the mass of an object increases, its density will __________________
What is increase?
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39. Air Pressure for 1200
30 inches of mercury is equal to about ________________ millibars.
What is 1,016?
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40. Air Pressure for 1600
At a height of 6 km, the air pressure would be about ________ inches of mercury.
What is 14?
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41. Layers of the Atmosphere for 400
This is the “middle” layer of the atmosphere.
What is the mesosphere?
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42. Layers of the Atmosphere for 800
The top of the troposphere has this for a temperature.
What is -60 degrees Celsius?
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43. Layers of the Atmosphere for 1200
This prefix means “outer” in the outermost layer of our atmosphere.
What is Exo?
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44. Layers of the Atmosphere for 1600
One cubic meter of air at sea level would expand out to this many cubic meters at the top of the mesosphere.
What is 100,000?
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45. Air Quality for 400
When a candle was burned in class and covered with a jar, the jar was filled with this.
What is smoke?
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46. Air Quality for 800 The burning of these can cause smog and acid rain.
What are fossil fuels?
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47. Air Quality for 1200
This agency monitors air pollutants in the United States.
What is the EPA?
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48. What is carbon monoxide?
Air Quality for 1600
This pollutant is caused by the burning of fossil fuels and can reduce the ability of blood to deliver oxygen to cells.
What is carbon monoxide?
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49. Vocabulary Words for 400 This gas form of water is invisible.
What is water vapor?
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50. Vocabulary Words for 800 This is another word for elevation.
What is altitude?
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51. What is turning or changing?
Vocabulary Words for 1200
The prefix “Tropo” means this.
What is turning or changing?
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52. Vocabulary Words for 1600
This is the year in which the term “smog” was coined by combining the words smoke and fog.
What is 1905?
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53. Capture the Chapter for 400
Forest fires, soil erosion and dust storms are natural sources of ___________ _______________
What is air pollution?
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54. Capture the Chapter for 800
The lowest temperature in the atmosphere is found where these two layers meet.
What are the mesosphere and thermosphere?
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55. Capture the Chapter for 1200
This is the percentage of oxygen you would find in the air at the top of Mount Everest.
What is 21%?
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56. Capture the Chapter for 1600
The water vapor content of the tropical rain forest atmosphere can be as high as this percentage.
What is 4%?
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62. What is 1 gram per milliliter?
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This is the density of water.
What is 1 gram per milliliter?