Atmosphere Webquest
http://outreach.physics.utah.edu/Labs/OurAtmosphere/atmosphere_main.html
What are the top two gases found in the atmosphere?
3. What are the variable components of the atmosphere?
4. Why does the amount of water vapor vary?
5. Why is dust so important in the atmosphere?
6. What is Ozone?
7. Where is ozone concentrated in the atmosphere?
8. Click on the Ozone Molecule. Read the captions. Is ozone good or bad?
9. Click on the Atmosphere model. Why is ozone bad for breathing?
10. (3?’s) Where does the beneficial ozone layer exist?
How far up in the atmosphere is this?
Why does temperature increase in this layer of the atmosphere?
11. Click off the Atmosphere Model after reading through the next couple of layers. Metaphorically, how thin is the atmosphere?
12. What is the bottom layer of the atmosphere called? Why is it important to us?
13. What happens to temperature in the following layers of the atmosphere?
Troposphere
Stratosphere
Mesosphere
Thermosphere
14. Why would it not feel “hot” in the thermosphere?
15. What are three damaging things that ozone can do if ozone is found in the troposphere?
16. In the stratosphere how is ozone created and destroyed?
17. Part II: What natural processes can contribute to the destruction of ozone?
18. What human activity was discovered in the 1970’s that contributes to the depletion of the ozone layer?
19. What is the most critical area of depletion over the Earth?
20. Part III: What emits greenhouse gases into the atmosphere?
21. How does the greenhouse effect happen?
22. How could small changes in the average temperature of the Earth alter life on Earth?
23. What molecule causes the greenhouse effect?
24. What could help decrease the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere?
25. THINK: What is happening to the tropical rain forests? How does this affect the Greenhouse Effect?
Another website to browse through:
http://www.vtaide.com/png/atmosphere.htm