6th Grade Ch 1 - 20 Questions Game
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Twenty Questions
6th grade
Chapter 1
The Atmosphere
Twenty Questions
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1. What is the condition of the Earth’s atmosphere at a particular time and place?
weatherweather
2. What is the layer of gases that surrounds the Earth?
atmosphereatmosphere
3. What is the most abundant gas in the atmosphere?
nitrogennitrogen
4. What is water in the form of gas?
water vaporwater vapor
5. What is a form of oxygen that has three oxygen atoms in each molecule instead of the usual two?
ozoneozone
6. When fuels such as coal and gasoline are burned, they release ____.
carbon dioxidecarbon dioxide
7. What is most air pollution the result of __________ ?
burning fossil fuelsburning fossil fuels
8. What layer of the atmosphere does the aurora borealis occur?
ionosphereionosphere
9. How are the four main layers of theatmosphere classified?
according to according to changes in changes in
temperaturetemperature
10. Air pressure _________ as altitude increases.
decreasesdecreases
11.What is the outer layer of the atmosphere?
exosphereexosphere
12. What layer of the atmosphere is divided into 2 layers? Name the 2 layers.
ThermosphereThermosphere1.1. ionosphereionosphere2.2. exosphereexosphere
13. layer of the atmosphere where most meteoroids burn up
mesospheremesosphere
14. Layer where weather occurs
tropospheretroposphere
15. The coldest layer of the atmosphere
mesospheremesosphere
16. elevation, or distance above sea level
altitudealtitude
17. Instrument used to measure changes in air pressure
barometerbarometer
18. 2 common units used to measure air pressure
1.1. InchesInches
2.2. Millibars Millibars
19. The result of the weight of acolumn of air pushing down on an area
air pressureair pressure
20. Communication satellites orbit Earth in this layer of the atmosphere.
exosphereexosphere