Earth Science Atmosphere

What is the lowest layer of the atmosphere and contains cloud and smog? 

What layer is the air warmed by heat by the flow of a heated material? 

What is caused by the Earth's rotation? 

Causes air masses moving in northern hemisphere to be turned westward from original direction? 

What layer merges into outer space? 

What blows from southwest to northeast at 30 degrees to 60 degrees latitude? 

What is the transfer of energy in the form of rays or waves? 

What is the cool, dense air that moves during the night from land toward water? 

What reflects radio waves at night? 

What is the transfer of heat by the flow of a heated material? 

What are the two narrow belts of fast-moving winds in each hemisphere?

Where are electronically charged particles found primarily? 

In the water cycle, what happens to the evaporated water? 

What are the windless zones near the equator? 

________ is where the heat transfer that occurs when molecules come in contact with one another

What are some chemicals that are being blamed for the destruction of the ozone layer? 

Too much exposure to what can cause skin cancer? 

What is cool, dense air near the sea that moves inland toward warm,dense areas during the day?

What are the winds that blow from the northeast to the southwest near the North Pole? 

What is the transfer of energy by electromagnetic waves? 

What is responsible for the movement of much of the weather across the United States? 

What are the air currents that blow near the north and south poles? 

At 30 degrees north or south of the equator, air descending to Earth's surface creates what? 

What is the windless zone at Earth's equator where air rises almost straight up? 

Where is an oxygen form present that filters ultraviolet radiation from the sun? 

What is the layer of the atmosphere nearest to the Earth's surface? 

Skin cancer can be caused by too much exposure to what?