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Chapter 18 Earth Science

  1. What is the atmosphere?
    It is a body of air surrounding the surface of the earth, enabling animals and humans the benefit to breathe.
  2. What is the percentage of nitrogen in the atmosphere?
    78%
  3. What is the percentage of oxygen in the atmosphere?
    21%
  4. What is the percentage of other gasses in the atmosphere?
    1%
  5. What layer of the earth has an enormous amount of mixtures in gasses?
    The homosphere
  6. What is the layer above the homosphere?
    The Heterosphere
  7. How far is the surface of the earth to the ozone layer?
    30km
  8. What does the ozone layer aid in?
    Making oxygen
  9. What happens when large quantities of the suns solar wind reaches the earth?
    It creates auroras
  10. What is a solar constant?
    It is the measurement of the total radiation the sun gives out from it to the earth.
  11. Where does most of earths weather take place?
    In the troposphere.
  12. What is numerical expression for oxygen?
    O2
  13. What is the exosphere?
    It is the layer of earth in which the stratopause and the earth meet together.
  14. What happened in 1960?
    A man jumped in space and landed on the earth.
  15. What is the importance of the ozone layer?
    It creates oxygen and new ozone particles.
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