Layers of the Atmosphere
What is the lowest layer of the atmosphere where we live and breathe?
What is the Troposphere?
What two gases make up most of the Earth's atmosphere
What is the Nitrogen and Oxygen?
What protects us from harmful UV rays?
What is the ozone layer?
What is the greenhouse effect?
What is the process of trapping heat to keep Earth warm?
Which layer has weather?
What is the Troposphere?
Which layer has the ozone layer?
What is the Stratosphere?
Which gas does humans need to breathe?
What is the Oxygen?
What happens if the ozone layer gets thinner?
What is the more UV rays reach Earth -- harmful to life
What would happen without the greenhouse effect?
What is the earth would be too cold for most life?
What tool measures air pressure?
What is the Barometer?
What layer protects Earth from meteors?
What is the Mesosphere?
Which gas do plants need for photosynthesis?
What is the Carbon Dioxide?
How does the atmosphere protect us from meteors?
What is the they burn up in the mesosphere?
Name one greenhouse gas.
What is the carbon dioxide, methane, or water vapor?
How does the atmosphere affect weather?
What is holds heat, moisture, and gases that create weather patterns?
Which layer has the auroras?
What is the Thermosphere?
What gas helps trap heat and keep Earth warm?
What is the Greenhouse gases?
What is one way the atmosphere helps living things survive?
What is the gives oxygen, protects from radiation, regulates temperature?
True or False: Greenhouse gases are always bad.
False - we need some for warmth
What role does the sun play in the atmosphere?
What is the heat, air, drives wind and weather?
What is the order of the main layers from Earth upward?
What is the Troposphere, Stratosphere, Mesosphere, Thermosphere, Exosphere
The atmosphere is mostly made up of oxygen.
False
If Earth had no atmosphere, what would happen?
What is the no air, no warmth, no protection -- life couldn't exist?
This layer of gases surrounding Earth not only keeps the planet warm but also blocks some of the Sun's harmful rays
What is the atmosphere?
What happens when warm air rises and cool air sinks?
What is the it creates convention currents -- the movement of air?