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| The gases of the ____________________ keep Earth warm and transport energy to different regions of the planet. |
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| The air becomes thinner as ______________________ increases. |
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Warm air rises and cold air sinks. This happens because of the difference in the _________________ of the air.
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| What natural cycle includes interactions among the atmosphere, the soil, and living organisms? |
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| Humans have impacted this cycle by burning fossil fuels, and that has caused global temperatures to rise. |
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| Plants releasing water vapor from their leaves is an example of this planetary cycle. |
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| About 30% of solar ___________________ is supposed to be reflected back out to space. |
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| An air mass passes over a desert and becomes warm and dry. This is an example of energy transfer that happens through direct contact between two substances, and that process is called ___________________. |
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| Heat is distributed in fluids by a process that involves heated material rising, cooling, and sinking. This process is called ____________________. |
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| This atmospheric layer begins at an altitude of about 56 miles. It is the hottest layer of the atmosphere, but the molecules of air here are so far apart that you would still feel very cold. |
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| This is the atmospheric layer where most meteors burn up. It contains less than 0.1% of the atmosphere's mass. |
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| This is a clear, dry atmospheric layer that is the home of the ozone layer. Volcanoes may blast material over 31 miles up, into this layer. |
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| 80% of the mass of the atmosphere is here, where air pressure is highest and temperatures decrease as altitude increases. |
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