Exam 17: The Atmosphere

Incompletely burned gasoline in automobile exhaust reacts to deplete ozone in the troposphere.

When the Solar System formed, what two elements were abundant and what happened to these elements?

Which two elements were in our Solar System when it formed from a clod of gas and dust?

What is an aneroid barometer and how does it work?

Which of the following shows the correct order of the atmospheric layers, from the lowest layer to the highest layer?

The rise of oxygen in the modern atmosphere is partially due to the preservation of organic matter before it could _____.

Smog is produced when automobile exhaust is exposed to ____________________.

An aerosol is any particle or particulate that is suspended in air.

Without our atmosphere, how would gas molecules behave?

On the pH scale, what pH level is neutral, what does the numbers lower and higher than 7 represent?

The atmosphere becomes ____.

Which four elements did Miller and Urey hypothesized that the Earth's atmosphere consisted of approximately 4 billion years ago?

The ozone in the upper atmosphere protects life on Earth by absorbing much of the high-energy ultraviolet light before it reaches Earth's surface.

The pressure exerted by air is the ____________________.

Completely burned hydrocarbons produce ____.

Atmospheric pressure at sea level is approximately equal to one ____.

During photosynthesis, plants convert ____ and ____ to organic sugars and oxygen.

Most iron is mined from banded iron formations.

Earth's earliest organisms were probably ____.

Donora-type incidents in the United States have not been repeated.