Chapter 18 Earth Science

What is the atmosphere?

It is a body of air surrounding the surface of the earth, enabling animals and humans the benefit to breathe.
What is the percentage of nitrogen in the atmosphere?

78%
What is the percentage of oxygen in the atmosphere?

21%
What is the percentage of other gasses in the atmosphere?

1%
What layer of the earth has an enormous amount of mixtures in gasses?

The homosphere
What is the layer above the homosphere?

The Heterosphere
How far is the surface of the earth to the ozone layer?

30km
What does the ozone layer aid in?

Making oxygen
What happens when large quantities of the suns solar wind reaches the earth?

It creates auroras
What is a solar constant?

It is the measurement of the total radiation the sun gives out from it to the earth.
Where does most of earths weather take place?

In the troposphere.
What is numerical expression for oxygen?

O2
What is the exosphere?

It is the layer of earth in which the stratopause and the earth meet together.
What happened in 1960?

A man jumped in space and landed on the earth.
What is the importance of the ozone layer?

It creates oxygen and new ozone particles.

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