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Atmosphere
SOL Review
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The Earth's atmosphere has changed over ____ ___ | Geologic time |
| What percentage of the Earth's atmosphere is nitrogen? | 78% |
| What percentage of the Earth's atmosphere is oxygen? | 21% |
| What percentage of the Earth's atmosphere is trace gases? | 1% |
| Biologic activity affects the atmosphere ability to hold what? | Heat |
| Humans have added carbon dioxide to the atmosphere through burning of what? | Fossil fuels |
| Oxygen sinks (oxidation of metals and animals) reduce that amount of what in the atmosphere? | Oxygen |
| The earliest atmosphere contained what? | Hydrogen and helium |
| Mercury has no atmosphere therefore it has no what? | Greenhouse affect. |
| Ice and snow reflects better than what? | Land and ocean water |