Environmental Science Questions
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Oxygen is released as a waste product by plants during the process of ____. Animals take in this oxygen and release it as carbon dioxide during the process of ____.
Of the three terms biome, community, and ecosystem, which term contains the other two?
____ are organisms that get their energy from nonliving resources, meaning they make their own food. These organisms are also called producers.
All ecosystems are made up of _____ and _____ components
____ factors are living things, such as plants or animals.
what is the most important measure of a society's quality of life?
The measure of how much water vapor is in the atmosphere is called __________.
The __________ layer is found between 620 miles and 1,500 miles (1,000 and 2,400 km).
There are __________ main layers in the atmosphere.
The __________ is found above the stratosphere, 50 km above the Earth's surface, and is where you find planes and weather balloons.
Most abundant greenhouse gas in the atmosphere
Small particles in the atmosphere including dust, salt, sulfate, or nitrate particles present surfaces for condensation to cling and are known as particulates in the atmosphere, so when the particulates become surfaces of condensation, they are called condensation __________.
What are current atmospheric conditions called?
Heat moves from areas of more heat to areas of less heat by direct contact
Air, water, and magma are three types of areas on the Earth that move by:
Calculate the Kelvin Temperature if the temperature in ° C is equal to 42.
Transfer of energy between two objects by electromagnetic waves
If the air is clear and condensation nuclei are not present, the cooler air has nothing on which to condense, and the air is __________.
Heat transfer by movement of heated materials
__________, which is the reverse of vaporization, is the process of changing from a gaseous state to a liquid state.