Chp 6 Study Guide
BOA pg 34-35
1. Know vocab: Weather, Atmosphere, System
2. What drives events and motions in the atmosphere? How?
3. What are the percentages of nitrogen, oxygen, carbon dioxide, and argon in the
atmosphere?
4. What are the other two components of the atmosphere?
5. What is required for things to burn? How does a candle burning change
depending on the size of the jar?
BOA pg 37
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What is the equation for density? What is density?
What is air pressure? How do you measure air pressure?
What are the two different types of barometers?
How does air pressure change as you move up a mountain?
BOA pg 38-39
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Know the layers of the atmosphere in order!
What are the details of the troposphere?
What are the details of the stratosphere?
What is ozone? What does it do?
What are the details of the mesosphere?
What are the details of the thermosphere?
Why is the sky blue?
BOA pg 42-43
1. What are electromagnetic waves? What is radiation?
2. What are the three different types of electromagnetic radiation that we talked
about in class? Which ones are the longest? Which ones are the shortest? How
do the different colors that we can see change in wavelength?
3. What is a wavelength?
4. What is a vacuum?
5. How do clouds effect the temperature below them and why?
6. Why do skiers frequently get sunburned even when the sun’s rays are not as
intense?
BOA pg 44-45
1. What is the greenhouse effect?
2. Why is the greenhouse effect important?
3. What are humans doing to increase greenhouse gases?
4. How do greenhouse gases work? What happens when you add more
greenhouse gases into the atmosphere?
5. How much of sun’s rays that reaches the surface is absorbed?
BOA pg 46-47
1. What is temperature? What is thermal energy?
2. Explain the following between a lake and a cup of hot tea:
a. Which has a higher temperature?
b. Which has a higher thermal energy?
c. What are the two accepted scientific temperature scales?
3. What is radiation and how can it be seen in the atmosphere?
4. What is convection? How can it be seen in the atmosphere?
5. What is conduction? How can it be seen in the atmosphere?
BOA pg 48-49
1. What causes winds to move?
2. How does the unequal heating of the atmosphere contribute to winds?
3. What are the two ways that winds can be measured?
4. What instrument measures winds and what does it look like?
5. What is a wind chill? What causes it? How does it work?
6. What are local winds?
7. What are global winds?
8. What are global convection currents?
9. How does the Coriolis effect affect winds?
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What are the prevailing westerlies?
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What are the doldrums?
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What are the trade winds?