Properties of the Atmosphere

Which statement most accurately describes the temperature trend in the Troposphere? Temperatures...

• rise with increasing altitude above the Earth

• rise then fall with increasing altitude above the Earth

• decrease with increasing altitude above the Earth

• remain constant with increasing altitude above the Earth

What causes the temperature to increase in the stratosphere?

• Nitrogen

• Ozone

• Water Vapor

• carbon dioxide

What happens to the air pressure the higher up in space you go?

• the air pressure increases

• the air pressure decreases

• the air pressure stays the same

• there is no air pressure

Cool air sinks and created a zone of high pressure

• doldrums

• prevailing westerlies

• polar easterlies

• trade winds

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

What is created because land and heats and cools more quickly than the water?

• Trade winds

• Polar easterlies

• Sea and land breezes

• Doldrums

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

Today's atmosphere is mostly made up of which gas?

• Oxygen

• Carbon Dioxide

• Argon

• Nitrogen

The ozone is important because it 

• Protects the Earth from asteroids

• Makes the oxygen leave Earth

• Protects us from the ultraviolet rays

• Keeps the oxygen trapped on Earth

What happens to density in the atmosphere the higher you go in altitude?

• Density decreases the higher you go in altitude.

• Density increases the higher you go in altitude.

• Density stays the same no matter how high you go in the atmosphere.

• Density increases and decreases, going back and forth, as you go higher in altitude.

What happens to air pressure the higher you go in the atmosphere?

• Air pressure decreases as you go higher in altitude.

• Air pressure increases as you go higher in altitude.

• Air pressure increases and decreases as you go higher in altitude.

• Air pressure stays the same as you go higher in altitude.

The atmosphere is divided into 4 main layers. Each layer has unique physical properties. Which is true about the Stratosphere?

• Weather occurs here.

• The Stratosphere is below the Troposphere.

• The Stratosphere has the Ozone layer with a 3-atom molecule of oxygen.

• The Space Shuttle flies in this layer.