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Arrange gases in order of their abundance in the earth's atmosphere
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Nitrogen
Oxygen Argon Carbon Dioxide |
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Much of Tibet lies in altitudes above 5.5 km (18000 ft.) At such altitudes the Tibetans are above approximately
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50% of the atmosphere
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The region of the atmosphere closest to the earth's surface is the
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Troposphere
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A characterisitc feature of the stratosphere is the presence of
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Ozone
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The atmosphere constituent chiefly responsible for absorbing ultraviolent radiation from the sun in
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Ozone
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Chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) gases, which the widely used in refrigeration and in foam plastics, catalyze the breakdown in the upper atmosphere of
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Ozone
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Completely dry air has a relative humidity of
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0
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The higher the temperature of a volume of air the,
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More water vapor it can hold
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When saturated air is cooled
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Some of its water content condenses out
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Clouds consist of
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Water droplets at low altitudes and ice crystals at high altitudes
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If the atmosphere contained fewer salt crystals and dust particles than it now does
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Clouds would form less readily
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Clouds occur when moist air is coled by
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Expansion when it rises
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The atmosphere is heated chiefly by
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Expansion when it rises
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The term greenhouse effect is used to descirbe the
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Heating of the atmosphere by infrared radiation from the earth
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Energy is trnsported from the tropics to the polar regions chiefly by
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Winds
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