Chapter 18 BJU Earth Science

What is the single most significant difference between the heterosphere and the homosphere?

How many oxygen atoms are needed to create ozone in the atmophere?

What two places trap harmful solar radiation and particles?

Almost all of the sun's energy makes it to the earth's surface.

What is the rate at which solar energy enters the earth's atmosphere called?

Which atmospheric layer affects radio communications on earth?

Which layer is where meteors burn?

Which layer extends 6,200 miles from earth's surface?

What is the continuum of energetic wave known as light energy?

Not all sun's energy reaching earth makes it to the surface. 1/2 of this energy can be absorbed or reflected by what?

What are the two key elements in our atmosphere?

Which layer contains the ionosphere and helps transmit radio waves?

Which layer contains the ozone layer which absorbs harmful UV rays?

What are fast winds that travel in paths in the stratosphere?

Which layer has very thin air and is extremely hot?

Which layer has very thin air and is the last layer of our atmosphere?

Which layer contains more than 75% of atmospheres mass?

What is indirect warming of the atmosphere called?

Where does a thin spot in the ozone layer occur on an annual basis?

What two nutrients are recycled among land, water, air, and living things?

How is carbon moved from the atmosphere into plants?

Most of Earth's weather happens in the ________________

The ozone layer protects life on Earth from dangerous radio waves from the sun.

Lightning is a natural agent of nitrogen fixing.

Which layer has temperature that decreases with an increase in altitude?

What are the envelope of gases surrounding the earth?

What two greenhouse gases contribute most to warming the earth's atmosphere?

Humans have a God-given responsibility to take care of the atmosphere.

Which layer begins at the earth's surface?

Which layer is where airplanes can fly free of weather disturbances?