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Atmosphere.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What are some affects of a meteor hitting Earth? | huge amounts of dust in the air and can set off forest fires and may also increase the amount of volcanic eruptions on Earth |
| What are the good insulators that trap heat? | water vapor, carbon diocide, and clouds |
| What are the six factors that can change the climate? | reflectivity of the surface, the amount and types of gases in the atmosphere, amount of cloud cover, volcanic eruptions, vegetation cover and meteor impacts. |
| Which absorbs more heat? Vegetated or non-vagetated areas | Vegetated areas |
| What did the earliest atmosphere contain? | Hydrogen and helium |
| Which reflects better? Ice and snow or Land and ocean water? | Ice and Snow |
| What is one way that humans can change the composition of the atmosphere | Adding carbon dixode to the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels |
| Man made chemicals have amount of ____ in the upper atmosphere | Ozone |
| What is the earths atmosphere currently made of? | 78% nitrogen, 21% oxygen and 1% trace gases |
| What are two ways volcanic eruptions can decrease the tempretures? | The volcanic ash is blocking out the sun directly or by ash increasing the amount of condensation nuclei in the atmosphere which facilitates the making of clouds which block sunlight |
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