Atmosphere Layers
Ozone
Air Pressure
Atmosphere Prefixes
Potpourri
100
The atmospheric layer closest to earth.
What is the troposphere?
100
The atmospheric layer where ozone is found
What is the stratosphere?
100
The direction(s) air presses
What is "all directions?"
100
This prefix means "middle"
What is Meso?
100
The force pulling all things toward the center of the earth
What is gravity?
200
The atmospheric layer where jets fly to avoid bad weather?
What is the stratosphere?
200
The harmful sun rays from which ozone protects us
What are ultraviolet rays?
200
This happens to air pressure as you go higher up into the atmosphere?
What is lower?
200
This prefix means "heat"
What is thermo?
200
The atmospheric layer where weather occurs.
What is the troposphere?
300
The middle layer of the atmosphere where meteors are seen as shooting stars
What is the mesosphere?
300
The hole in the ozone layer is greatest over this continent
What is Antarctica?
300
This happens to air pressure the lower you go below sea level
What is gets stronger?
300
This prefix means "outer"
What is exo?
300
Scientists divide the atmosphere into 5 layers based on changes in this
What is temperature?
400
This is the hottest layer of the atmosphere
What is the thermosphere?
400
Ozone is made up of 3 molecules of this gas
What is oxygen?
400
The metric weight of air at sea level
What is 1 kilogram per square centimeter?
400
This prefix means "stretched out"
What is strato?
400
These 2 gases make up most of earth's atmosphere
What are nitrogen and oxygen?
500
This is the layer of the atmosphere where the space shuttle and satellites travel.
What is the exosphere?
500
The full name for CFC's
What are chlorofluorocarbons?
500
The standard (American) weight of air at sea level.
What is 15 pounds per square inch?
500
This prefix means "change"
What is tropo?
500
The electrically charged part of the thermosphere that helps transmit radio waves
What is the ionosphere?
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