Unit 4 vocabulary

The layer of gas surrounding a planet that is held in place by gravity

• water vapor

• atmosphere

• lithosphere

• hydrosphere

The general makeup of something

• greenhouse gasses

• deposition

• atmosphere

• composition

Gases in the atmosphere that trap heat within the atmosphere

• greenhouse gases

• ozone

• mesosphere

• lithosphere

The third layer of Earth’s atmosphere; located between the stratosphere and thermosphere

• troposphere

• thermosphere

• mesosphere

• stratosphere

Gas in Earth’s atmosphere that absorbs most of the damaging high-energy ultraviolet radiation from the Sun

• Ozone

• Greenhouse gases

• lithosphere

• water vapor

The second layer of Earth’s atmosphere; located between the troposphere and mesosphere

• Stratosphere

• thermosphere

• exosphere

• lithoshpere

The fourth layer of Earth’s atmosphere; located between the mesosphere and exosphere

• Troposphere

• Thermosphere

• Stratosphere

• Lithosphere

The layer of atmosphere closest to the surface of Earth; where weather occurs

• Troposphere

• Stratosphere

• Mesosphere

• Thermosphere

Transfer of thermal energy that occurs in solids, liquids, and gases when two substances of different temperatures touch

• Radiation

• Conduction

• Convection

• Greenhouse Gases

Heat transfer caused by the rising of hotter, less dense fluids and the falling of cooler, denser fluids

• Conduction

• Radiation

• Convection

• Composition