Meteorology
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- Meteorology
- Study of weather
- what is function of atmosphere
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protects us from radiation
supports life
protects us from meteors - What are atmospheric gases that come from volcanoes
- water vapor, C02, N2, and H2
- what is the atmospheric gas that comes from the decay of 40K
- Argon
- what gas makes up 78% of atmosphere
- nitrogen
- What gas makes up 21% of atmosphere
- oxygen
- what is a particle and name examples
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microscopic solids in the atmosphere
dust, soot, pollen, lead and salt - What is the nitrogen cycle
- path where nitrogen follows as it moves through the air, soil,water, plants and animals
- lightning and bacteria........
- produce nitrogen compounds that plants can use
- what is the formula for nitric acid
- HNO3
- what is the formula for ammonia
- NH3
- how do nitrogen compounds get into animals
- animals eat plants
- what is bacteria
- rotten organic materla that returns nitrogen to the atmosphere
- what gases do plants use?
- CO2, 02
- what gas do plants produce
- 02
- what gas is produced by the "burning" of food and fossil fuels
- CO2
- name some fossil fuels
- coal, wood and oil
- what gases cause the greenhouse effect
- CO2 and water vapor
- what is infared?
- radiation trapped by the Greenhouse Effect
- what does 03 stand for
- ozone
- what is ultraviolet
- radiation stopped by the ozone layer
- what chemical is found in refrigerators?
- freon
- where is there a hole in the atmosphere
- over antarctica