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| any airborne gas or particle that occurs at a concentration capable of harming living things or disruption of environment funtions |
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| transfer of heat or another from of energy from one particle to another |
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| transfer of heat energy in a liquid or gas through the circulation of currents; densities |
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| total kinetic energy of all the particles of a substance |
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| solar radiation that reaches the Earth; energy from the sun |
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| portion of the thermosphere where the air is highly ionized due to the effects of UV rays |
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| line drawn on a weather map through places having the same atmospheric temperature at a given time |
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| layer of Earth's atmosphere between stratosphere and thermosphere; lower temperatures |
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| molecule of oxygen that consists of three oxygen atoms |
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| transfer of energy through space by electromagnetic waves |
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| layer of Earth's atmosphere between troposhere and mesosphere; ozone, temp increases with altitude |
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| measure of the average kinetic energy of the atoms or molecules in a substance |
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| increase in temperature with an increase in altitude; when a layer of cold air is trapped beneath layer of warm air |
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| layer of Earth's atmosphere above the mesosphere; increase temperatures with altitude |
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| lowest layer of Earth's atmosphere; decreasing temperature with altitude |
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