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What causes the Coriolis effect?
a) the tilt of the earth
b) the earth's rotation
c) the earth is round
d) high pressure

What are the winds near the poles called?
a) trade winds
b) easterlies
c) westerlies
d) doldrums

What is the low wind area near the equator called?
a) horse latitudes
b) trade winds
c) doldrums
d) westerlies

What causes winds?
a) air resistance
b) the friction of the air
c) trees sneezing
d) differences in air pressure

The temperature in the troposphere goes from:
a) cold to warm
b) warm to cold
c) cold to cold
d) warm to warm

A mixture of gasses that surrounds the Earth.
a) air pressure
b) spheroshere
c) atmosphere
d) methane

Which layer glows when electrically charged?
a) mesosphere
b) ozone layer
c) troposphere
d) ionosphere

What is the second layer of the atmosphere?
a) thermosphere
b) troposphere
c) stratosphere
d) mesosphere

What does the ozone layer do?
a) reflect radio waves
b) absorb radiation
c) absorb CO2
d) glow

This layer is warm but has few particles so it doesn't feel warm.
a) troposphere
b) stratosphere
c) mesosphere
d) thermosphere

Most energy in the atmosphere by:
a) conduction
b) convection
c) radiation
d) magic

What does the ionosphere do?
a) make radiation
b) warm up the earth
c) reflect radio waves
d) absorb CO2

What atmosphere layer has most of the weather and life in it?
a) troposphere
b) startosphere
c) mesosphere
d) theremosphere

What atmosphere layer contains the ozone layer?
a) troposphere
b) stratosphere
c) mesosphere
d) thermosphere

What atmosphere layer is the coldest?
a) troposphere
b) stratosphere
c) mesosphere
d) thermosphere

What causes breezes near large bodies of water?
a) water and land change temperatures at different rates
b) air and water change temperatures at the same rate
c) air and water change temperatures at different rates
d) air has more particles than water

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