Chapter 7 - - Atmosphere TEST

Question 1

What is the term for Precipitation that has a pH under 5.4?

Answer 1

Acid Rain

Question 2

What is the term for the temperature that is the point at chick all motion ceases?

Answer 2

Absolute zero

Question 3

What results from the collisions of air molecules with objects?

Answer 3

Atmospheric Pressure

Question 4

What is the term for the energy an object has because of it’s motion?

Answer 4

Kinetic energy

Question 5

What is the term for the process that plants use to convert carbon dioxide and water into oxygen gas and organic carbon (sugar)?

Answer 5

Photosynthesis

Question 6

What is commonly used to measure atmospheric pressure?

Answer 6

Barometer

Question 7

What is the name of the layer where we live - it is from the surface of the earth to six miles up - it is where the weather takes place?

Answer 7

Troposphere

Question 8

What is the term for a factor in the materials’ ability to warm up (amount of energy needed to raise 1 gram 1 degrees Celsius?

Answer 8

Heat Capacity

Question 9

What is the result of simultaneous collisions of billions upon billions of gas particles with an object?

Answer 9

Gas pressure

Question 10

What is the term for gas propellants that are used in aerosol cans and are coolants in fridges and air conditioners and solvents for cleaning microchips?

Answer 10

Chlorofluorocarbons

Question 11

What is the term for the layer of gas that surrounds the earth and protects us from UV rays, it is only about 3 mm thick?

Answer 11

Ozone

Question 12

What is the process mammalian a use to convert oxygen and sugar into carbon dioxide and water?

Answer 12

Thermosphere

Question 13

What is the outermost layer of the atmosphere that contains electrically charged particles that are called ions and reflects radio waves?

Answer 13

Thermosphere

Question 14

What is the color that absorbs all light?

Answer 14

Black

Question 15

What contributes to the increasing amount of carbon dioxide in the air?

Answer 15

Burning fossil fuels

Converting limestone into calcium carbonate

Question 16

What pH must rain be under - to be classified at acid rain?

Answer 16

5.4

Question 17

What percent of the sun’s energy is absorbed to warm the atmosphere, oceans, etc?

Answer 17

47%

Question 18

What is the SI unit for pressure?

Answer 18

Pascals (Pa)

Question 19

What percent of the air that we breathe is nitrogen?

Answer 19

78%

Question 20

What is a product of photosynthesis?

Answer 20

O2

Question 21

What is the term for the energy from the Earth that is released back into space?

Answer 21

Outward flow

Question 22

What is the layer that extends to 30 miles up, there is very little wind and it is very cold - - Planes fly in this layer?

Answer 22

Stratosphere

Question 23

What is the following:

Volume of a given amount of gas held at a constant temperature varies inversely with the applied pressure when the temperature and mass are constant.

Answer 23

Boyle’s law

Question 24

What is the term for when light energy strikes objects some surfaces absorb it and heat up and some reflect it?

Answer 24

Reflectivity

Question 25

What flow of energy comes from the sun?

Answer 25

Inward flow

Question 26

What layer of the atmosphere extends from around 31 miles above the Earth's surface to 53 miles?

Answer 26

Mesosphere

Question 27

What is the process of absorbing reflected energy?

Answer 27

Greenhouse effect

Question 28

What color reflects all light?

Answer 28

White

Question 29

What is the area that was the first to report acid rain?

Answer 29

Scandinavia

Question 30

What percent of the sun's energy is used in the hydrologic cycle?

Answer 30

23%

Question 31

What is a product of respiration?

Answer 31

CO2

Question 32

What percentage of the air that we breathe is carbon dioxide?

Answer 32

0.04%

Question 33

What is the value for absolute zero in Kelvin?

Answer 33

0K

Question 34

What are the gases that help trap tin the Earth's atmosphere?

Answer 34

Co2 | CH4

Question 35

What is the purpose of the ozone layer?

Answer 35

Block the UV radiation from the sun

Question 36

What gases directly effect the ozone layer?

Answer 36

CFC's and HCFC's

Question 37

What is a reactant of photosynthesis?

Answer 37

O2

Question 38

Why do we need the greenhouse gas layer?

Answer 38

It traps heat in the earth's atmosphere

Question 39

What percent of the air that we breathe is oxygen?

Answer 39

21%

Question 40

What percent of the sun's energy is reflected back into space and clouds?

Answer 40

30%

Question 41

What is the equation for Boyle's law?

Answer 41

P1V1 = P2V2 = P3V3

Question 42

What is a reactant of respiration?

Answer 42

Organic Carbon (sugar)

Question 43

What happens when temperature increase in a substance - average kinetic energy . . . .

Answer 43

INCREASES

Question 44

Why would a baseball travel faster in Colorado than in New York City?

Answer 44

There are less air molecules in the way to slow it down

Question 45

What are the two factors that effect the pressure?

Answer 45

Temperature | Amount of a gas

Question 46

What will happen to pressure as you ascend into the atmosphere?

Answer 46

It will decrease

Question 47

What will happen to pressure as you go below sea level?

Answer 47

It will increase

Question 48

What happens to energy when you have an elastic collision?

Answer 48

It is neither lost nor created

Question 49

What has a high heat capacity?

Answer 49

Water

Question 50

Remember: Which is correct? 1) . A gas is composed of molecules and atoms 2) . Gas particles move slowly in infrequent motion

Answer 50

#2 ). Gas particles move slowly in infrequent motion