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The thin layer of gases that surrounds the earth.
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What is the Atmosphere? (173)
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Exists of 5 layers around Earth.
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Human-made chemical compounds
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What are CFC's (Chloroflourocarbons)? (186)
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Air conditioner system gas Freon & other aerosols used for pressure dispensing.
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The average weather in an area over a long period of time.
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What is climate? (176)
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Our ________ is temperate in the Southeast.
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Predicted increase in Earth's temperature due to an increase in greenhouse gases.
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What is Global Warming? (184)
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Gas emissions from livestock contribute to this.
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Warming effect on the air caused by heat rising from the surface of the earth and being dropped by gases in the troposhpere?
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What is greenhouse effect? (180)
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A name taken from where plants are cultivated from seed in horticulture.
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The gases in the atmosphere that trap and radiate heat.
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What is greenhouse gases? (181)
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A term taken from where plants are cultivated in horticulture.
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Form of oxygen with molecules made of three oxygen atoms. (186)
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What is ozone? (186)
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Shields Earth from Ultraviolet and other dangerous solar radiation
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One of the 5 layers of the atmosphere lying immediately above the troposphere & extending from 1 km to about 50 km above earth's surface.
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What is Stratosphere? (175)
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Contains ozone layer; where commercial airlines fly; mild winds & less dense air.
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One of the 5 layers of the atmosphere extending from Earth's surface to about 10 km above the surface.
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What is Troposphere? (175)
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Approx. 6 miles above Earth where weather takes place, air currents carry hot, humid or cold, dry air around Earth
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Conditions in the atmoshpere of a particular place and particular moment.
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What is weather? (176)
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Frequent changes in the troposphere.
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Global winds located between 40 and 60 degrees latitude that flow from the Southwest in the Northern Hemisphere, and from the Northwest in the Southern Hemisphere.
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What are Westerlies? (470) Modern Earth Science Book.
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winds blow from south_____ to northeast.
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Weak Gloval winds located North of 65 Degrees North Latitude & South of 65 Degrees South Latitude that flow away from the Poles.
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What are Polar Easterlies? (470) Modern Earth Science Book.
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Winds blowing from northeast diagonally to southwest
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Global winds flowing toward the equator between 30 Degrees and 0 Degrees Latitude.
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What are Trade Winds? (47)
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flow toward the equator and were used by sailing ships to cross oceans
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The Atmospheric zone above the Stratosphere.
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What is Mesosphere? (175)
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a transitional area (meso) between the stratosphere where there is more air and the thermosphere which is much thinner and unable to support life
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The Atmospheric zone above the Mososphere.
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What is Thermosphere? (175)
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layer of atmosphere named for heat conduction
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The outermost portion of the Earth's atmosphere.
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What is Exosphere? (175)
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The thinnest layer of atmosphere which merges into outer space
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