Layers of the Atmosphere
Layers of the Earth
Hot or Cold?
Early Earth
Early Atmosphere
100
The layer of Earth's atmosphere where weather occurs
What is the troposphere?
100
The layer of Earth where we live
What is the crust?
100
The coldest layer of the Earth
What is the crust?
100
Proto-planets that came together to make Earth
What are planetesimals?
100
The two most common gases in today's atmosphere
What are nitrogen and oxygen?
200
The layer of Earth's atmosphere that contains the Ozone layer
What is the stratosphere?
200
The crust floats on this plastic-like layer
What is the mantle?
200
The hottest layer of the Earth
What is the inner core?
200
The age of the Earth
What is about 4.6 billion years?
200
Volcanoes released these three gases into the early atmosphere
What are chlorine, nitrogen, and sulfur
300
The layer of Earth's atmosphere where meteors are destroyed
What is the mesosphere?
300
The main elements in the core
What are Iron and Nickel?
300
What is the hottest coldest layer of the atmosphere?
What is the mesosphere?
300
Shape of the planet in it's early formation
What is potato?
300
This organism helped create the oxygen we have in our atmosphere today
What is blue-green algae?
400
The hottest layer of Earth's atmosphere
What is the thermosphere?
400
The only liquid layer of Earth
What is the outer core?
400
The layer of Earth that gets hotter as you go further in
What is the mantle?
400
The force that created the spherical shape of our planet today
What is gravity?
400
As Early Earth cooled, it released these 2 common gases
What are carbon dioxide and water vapor?
500
The layer of gasses surrounding Earth, held together by gravity
What is the atmosphere?
500
The 4 main elements in Earth's crust
What are oxygen, silicon, aluminum, and iron?
500
This layer has an average temperature of about -3 degrees Celsius
What is the stratosphere?
500
___________ and earthquakes are results of leftover energy from the creation of Earth
What are volcanoes?
500
Early Earth lacked this part of the atmosphere, therefore was very hot
What is ozone?
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