DE_CH_5.1_TheCompositionAndBehaviorOfTheAtmosphere

What do I already know about the composition and behavior of the atmosphere?

Explain how a heater warms the air in a room, including the words density, volume, and temperature in your explanation.

Drag the descriptions of the layers of the atmosphere to the layers that they go with, recognizing that a layer may have more than one description.

Match the gas that composes our atmosphere with the correct percentage.

Select the factors that contribute to the formation of wind.

What is the composition of Earth's Atmosphere?

Why do we have difficulty breathing at high altitudes?

Thermal energy is transferred through the atmosphere in three ways. What are they?

Which of the following reasons explain why Earth's surface heats unevenly?

Land absorbs and releases thermal energy faster than water does.

Cloud layer does not affect the amount of solar radiation the Earth receives.

The apparent effect of a rotating body that influences the motion of any object or fluid moving over it. In the Northern Hemisphere on Earth, air and other objects (airplanes, missiles) move toward the right. In the Southern hemisphere, air and other objects move toward the left. What does this describe (vocabulary word)?

Which region demonstrates the westerlies?

Which region describes the Northeast trade winds

Which region exemplifies the southeast trade winds?

What percent of Venus's atmosphere is carbon dioxide?

What is causing the light to bend?

What is a common device used to measure pressure (especially when measuring air pressure/atmospheric pressure?

At the beginning of the video, what formula did they give for pressure?

At the beginning of the video, what 'unit(s)' did they say pressure was measured in?