Across
- 1. a process used by plants and algae to make sugar out of light, carbon dioxide, and water
- 4. a gaseous state of water; a variable gas that is found in earth's atmosphere
- 8. a colorless, odorless gas that makes up about 78 percent of earth's atmosphere
- 12. a radiant energy that heats
- 14. a gas in the atmosphere for which the relative amount stays constant
- 15. the amount of matter in an object or sample
Down
- 2. They are the most stable due to having the maximum number of valence electrons their outer shell can hold.
- 3. a water gas in the atmosphere; a greenhouse gas
- 5. the layer of gases surrounding earth
- 6. a form of oxygen that forms a thin layer in the stratosphere
- 7. a greenhouse gas in earth's atmosphere. carbon dioxide is created by natural and human-made process
- 9. a gas that absorbs and radiates energy in the atmosphere trapping thermal energy
- 10. an atmospheric gas whose amount changes based on the environment
- 11. the mixture of gases that surrounds the earth
- 13. a gas that makes up about 21 percent of earth's atmosphere
