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| 3 oxygen atoms in a v formation. Found in the stratosphere |
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| What is the lowest layer in the atmosphere? |
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| Most weather occurs in what layer? |
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| What causes heat to move from one place to another? |
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| What is the greenhouse effect? |
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| Heating of the Earth's surface from solar radiation. |
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| Electromagnetic Radiation |
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| Heat that does not require a medium to move; heat from a fire or oven |
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| light and energy bounce off a surface and go everywhere |
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| Which gets hotter quicker: water or land? |
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| Which gets colder quicker: land or water? |
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| What do clouds do to sunlight? |
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| How much nitrogen is in the atmosphere? |
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| How much oxygen is in the atmosphere? |
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| How is the atmosphere divided into layers? |
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| What could happen to energy when radiation strikes an object? |
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| It could reflect, absorb or pass through it. |
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| What are the natural air pollutants? |
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| Pollen, spores, ash, smoke, dust and salt particles |
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| What are the main air pollutants? |
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| CO2, soot, car exhast, and acid rain |
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| What are the effects of acid rain? |
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| Kills trees, breaks down buildings and kills fish |
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| How are CFCs harmful to the ozone layer? |
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| They attack and destroy ozone |
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| What did the Montreal Protocol do? |
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| Stopped manufacture of products with CFCs |
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| How is an inversion layer harmful to humans? |
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| It traps smog; smog=not good for health. |
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| Certain state of the atmosphere at any given time |
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| Long term weather in a region |
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| Heat that travels through touch |
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| Heat that is transferred through a liquid. |
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| Heat that is transferred as electromagnetic waves without a medium of travel |
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