Earth Science Atmosphere Vocab Quiz Review

Layer of the atmosphere closest to Earth's surface, where most of the mass of the atmosphere is found and in which most weather takes places and air pollution collects.

• troposphere
• stratosphere
• mesosphere
• thermosphere
• exosphere

Layer of Earth's atmosphere that is located above the tropopause and is made up primarily of concentrated ozone

• stratosphere
• troposphere
• mesosphere
• thermosphere
• exosphere

layers of Earth's atmosphere above the stratopause

• mesosphere
• troposphere
• stratosphere
• thermosphere
• exosphere

later of Earth's atmosphere that is located above the mesopause; oxygen atoms absorb solar radiation causing the temperature to rise in this latter

• thermosphere
• troposphere
• stratosphere
• mesosphere
• exosphere

increase in temperature with height in an atmospheric layer, which inverts the temperature-altitude relationship and can worsen air-pollution problems

• temperature inversion
• troposphere
• stratosphere
• mesosphere
• thermosphere

outermost layer of Earth's atmosphere that is located above the thermosphere with no clear boundary at the top: transitional region between Earth's atmosphere and outer spce

• exosphere
• troposphere
• stratosphere
• mesosphere
• thermosphere

the transfer of thermal energy by electromagnetic waves; the transfer of thermal energy from the Sun to Earth

• radiation
• troposphere
• stratosphere
• mesosphere
• thermosphere

ratio of water vapor contained in a specific volume of air compared with how much waver vapor that amount of air can actually hold: expressed as a percentage

• relative humidity
• troposphere
• stratosphere
• mesosphere
• thermosphere

the transfer of thermal energy between objects in contact by the collisions between the particles in the object

• conduction
• troposphere
• stratosphere
• mesosphere
• thermosphere

the transfer of thermal energy by the movement of heated material from one place to another

• convection
• troposphere
• stratosphere
• mesosphere
• thermosphere