Air has a ______________ and is made of molecules that take up space.
- color
- aneroid
- pulse
- volume
The air has different ____________ at different heights above sea level.
- sea levels
- pressures
- barros
- androids
Knowing the air ____________ helps in forecasting the weather.
- pressure
- color
- baro
- aneroid
We know when a storm is coming because the _________ __________ lowers.
- wind direction
- wind speed
- air pressure
- air direction
PSI is the measure of ___________
- wind speed
- tree heights
- air temperature
- air pressure
A mercury barometer measures this.
- wind speed
- air humidity
- wind temperature
- air pressure
Air density depends on both altitude and this.
- wind
- temperature
- color
- water pressure
This is the height above sea level.
- mercury barometer
- barros
- aneroid barometer
- altitude
This is mixed in with all the air molecules.
- pressure
- water vapor
- altimeters
- barros
You can tell how high you are flying by reading this.
- altimeter
- sea level
- humidity
- temperature
Air pressure is measured in these units.
- burros
- feet
- meters
- PSI
This is inside each raindrop or snowflake.
- UV Radiation
- dust
- cloud
- temperature
Earth’s atmosphere is made up of ____________ layers.
- more than three
- one
- three
- two
Earth's atmosphere has different layers based on the different ____________.
- humidity
- color
- temperatures
- depth
This layer has about 75% of the Earth's air, even though it is the smallest layer.
- stratosphere
- troposphere
- mesosphere
- exosphere
Meteors burn up in this layer.
- troposphere
- exosphere
- stratosphere
- mesosphere
The space station orbits here - above the mesosphere.
- thermosphere
- exosphere
- mesosphere
- stratosphere
This layer is really "space"
- thermosphere
- exosphere
- mesosphere
- stratosphere
This layer gets hotter as you go away from the Earth and is where weather balloons fly.
- mesosphere
- troposphere
- exosphere
- stratosphere
This layer gets cooler as you go from the Earth's surface up.
- troposphere
- mesosphere
- stratosphere
- thermosphere
The Aurora Borealis are also known as this.
- "Southern Borealis"
- "Southern Lights"
- "Northern Lights"
- "Northern Darks"
Ozone protects us from _________________ sunlight.
- yellow
- red
- ultraviolet
- ultrablue
Another way of talking about space is the ____________ layer.
- mesosphere
- thermosphere
- stratosphere
- exosphere
We live in the ___________________.
- exosphere
- troposphere
- stratosphere
- mesosphere
About ____ % of the air is in the troposphere.
- 99
- 25
- 75
- 21