Troposphere
Stratosphere
Mesosphere
Thermosphere
Atmosphere Potpourri
100
These occurs in this layer
What are weather and clouds?
100
This is the ______________ layer up from the Earth.
What is the second?
100
This is the ____________ layer from the earth.
What is third?
100
The two layers that make up the thermosphere
What are ionosphere and exosphere?
100
The air pressure at the top of a mountain
What is thin?
200
The temperature __________________ as altitude increases.
What is decreases?
200
Located in the stratosphere, destruction of this is causing the earth to heat up (global warming).
What is the ozone layer?
200
This layer protects the Earth from _______________, which burn up in this layer.
What are meteoroids?
200
This is the fourth layer of the atmosphere
What is ionosphere?
200
This changes as the layers of the atmosphere change
What is temperature?
300
This is the lowest layer of the atmosphere where _________ exists
What is life?
300
These two items can be found in this layer
What are airplanes and weather balloons?
300
The air is so _________, weather balloons and airplanes can't fly in this layer.
What is thin?
300
Much of the _________________ from the sun is absorbed in this layer.
What is radiation?
300
This is made up of 78% nitrogen, 21% oxygen, and 1% of trace gases
What is the atmosphere?
400
This layer contains _________% of the gases in the atmosphere.
What is 75%?
400
This describes the air in this layer, due to little water vapor.
What is dry?
400
This is odd lightning that occurs in the mesosphere.
What are sprites or elves?
400
The natural light displays located in this layer.
What are the auroras (the Northern/Southern Lights)?
400
This is caused by an increase in carbon dioxide gases, which trap the sun's heat and prevents the sun's rays from reflecting back into the atmosphere.
What is the greenhouse effect?
500
The area directly before the stratosphere begins, has these very strong winds that blow eastward (from the west).
What is the jet stream?
500
The temperature ________________ as the altitude increases.
What is increases?
500
The mesosphere is the (coldest/hottest) region of the atmosphere.
What is coldest?
500
The top most layer where atoms and molecules escape into space
What is the exosphere?
500
The phrase "good up high and bad near by" describes this
What is ozone?
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