Transcription of Air - NCERT
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4 Air Do you know? Our earth is surrounded by a huge blanket of air called atmosphere. All living beings on this earth Carbon dioxide depend on the atmosphere for their survival. It released in the provides us the air we breathe and protects us from atmosphere creates a the harmful effects of the sun's rays. Without this green house effect by blanket of protection, we would be baked alive by the trapping the heat heat of the sun during day and get frozen during radiated from the night. So it is this mass of air that has made the earth. It is therefore temperature on the earth liveable. called a greenhouse gas and without it the COMPOSITION OF THE A TMOSPHERE. earth would have been too cold to live in.
as temperature. The temperature of the atmosphere changes not only between day and night but also from season to season. Summers are hotter than winters. An important factor that influences the distribution of temperature is . insolation Insolation is the incoming solar energy intercepted by the earth. The amount of insolation decreases from ...
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