What creates the differences in air pressure on Earth?

The unequal heating of the Earth by the sun.

What are the percentages of the main gases on Earth?

78% nitrogen, 21% oxygen and 1% other

78% oxygen, 21% nitrogen and 1% other

78% other, 21% oxygen and 1% nitrogen

95% carbon dioxide and 5% oxygen

You place your 72 o F plastic spoon in to soup that is 85 o F. What will happen?

Energy as heat moves from the soup to the spoon.

Energy as heat moves from the spoon to the soup.

Energy as heat does not move because the spoon is plastic.

Energy as heat does not move, because the temperature difference is too small.

Which of the following is a source of indoor air pollution?

Chemicals from certain cleaning products

Radiation from sunlight entering the windows

What effect has urbanization had on air pollution in the United States and around the world?

Locating more industries in urban areas creates more air pollution.

People driving more cars leads to less air pollution.

People driving fewer cars results in more air pollution.

Providing less mass transportation leads to less air pollution.

Which is the only heat transfer which can go through empty space?

None can go through empty space

Why is it harder to breath at higher altitudes?

The air is less dense. Less pressure means that the air is thin.

The air is more dense. Heavy air is hard to breath.

Less percentage of oxygen at higher levels.

It is not harder to breath at higher altitudes,

As altitude increases, air pressure....

deflects due to the Coriolis Effect.

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30 sec • 1 pt

Why are air temperatures above land higher than the air above the water during the day?

Land heats quicker than water.

Water heats quicker than land.

There are more people on land.

There is more pollution on land.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Why are air temperatures above land higher than the air above the water during the day?

Land heats quicker than water.

Water heats quicker than land.

There are more people on land.

There is more pollution on land.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which layer contains most of the mass of the atmosphere?

Thermosphere

Mesosphere

Stratosphere

Troposphere

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which layer contains most of the mass of the atmosphere?

Thermosphere

Mesosphere

Stratosphere

Troposphere

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which of the following are NOT ways that the atmosphere makes life on Earth possible?

Allows water to exist as a liquid.

Protects us from harmful UV rays and meteors.

Contains the gases we need to live.

All are ways that the atmosphere makes life possible.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What contributed to the development of the hole in the ozone?

Electricity use.

The use of CFC's (chlorofluorocarbons.)

Human breathing.

New factories.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The layers of the gases that surround the Earth is the....

atmosphere

lithosphere

hydrosphere

mesosphere

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The Atmosphere

Why are air temperatures above land higher than the air above the water during the day?

Why are air temperatures above land higher than the air above the water during the day?

Which layer contains most of the mass of the atmosphere?

Which layer contains most of the mass of the atmosphere?

Which of the following are NOT ways that the atmosphere makes life on Earth possible?

What contributed to the development of the hole in the ozone?

The layers of the gases that surround the Earth is the....

The layer of the atmosphere that contains the ozone layer is the....

Using the diagram, which layers of the atmosphere are temperatures increasing?

Which layer is 0 -12 km?

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