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This 27-card flashcard set covers Grade 8 Earth science topics from a chapter on atmosphere and weather. It includes vocabulary and concepts such as smog, ozone layer, greenhouse effect, convection, jet streams, and the ionosphere, along with related questions about atmospheric processes. Use it for chapter review, exam preparation, or vocabulary drill in an Earth science or weather systems unit.

Subject:
Science
Topic:
Earth Science
Grade Level:
8th Grade
Updated August 2024

Terms in This Set

  • Smog
  • naturalistic scientists
  • How was the atmosphere formed according to creationists?
  • molecular hydrogen
  • In temperate zones, the troposphere lapse rate is
  • Where do the coolest temperatures occur?
  • Thermosphere
  • atmosphere
  • What can fix nitrogen?
  • What is the ozone made of where a hole develops?
  • What does the ionosphere affect?
  • What does the magnetosphere provide protection from?
  • Infrared energy makes up most of
  • What weather condition absorbs the most heat from the sun?
  • The earth's surface warming the air directly above it is an example of
  • convection
  • What can excessive UV rays do to humans?
  • What can the changes in the atmospheric oxygen levels cause?
  • atmosphere
  • greenhouse effect
  • solar constant
  • jet streams
  • lapse rate
  • electromagnetic spectrum
  • ionosphere
  • magnetosphere
  • ozone layer

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