Definitions
What is weather?
The layer of the atmosphere where the ozone is.
What is the stratosphere?
You would have to travel through this many layers of Earth's atmosphere before entering space.
What is five?
What gas takes up 78% of the atmosphere?
What is nitrogen?
This is the name of what protects us from ultraviolet radiation from the sun.
What is the ozone layer?
This is the envelope of gases that surround the planet.
What is atmosphere?
This is the outermost layer of Earth's atmosphere.
What is exosphere?
As you get closer to sea level, the density of the air pressure changes in this way.
What is it increases?
What gas takes up about 21% of the atmosphere?
What is oxygen?
Other than gases, these two things make up our atmosphere.
What is water vapor and dust particles?
This is the amount of mass in a given volume of air.
What is density?
This is the coldest layer of the atmosphere.
What is the mesosphere?
As you travel up through the troposphere, the temperature changes in this way.
What is decreases?
This gas is essential for plants to produce food. It makes up less than 1% of our atmosphere.
What is carbon dioxide?
This is the weather of an area over a long period of time.
What is climate?
This is the result of the weight of a column of air pushing on an area.
What is air pressure?
This is the layer of Earth's atmosphere where meteors burn up.
What is mesosphere?
When you go up through the atmosphere, the density of the air changes in this way.
What is it decreases?
The gases that plants and animals need to survive are kept close to earth because of this.
What is the atmosphere?
Weather occurs in this layer of Earth's atmosphere.
What is the troposphere?
This is the distance, or elevation, above sea level.
What is altitude?
This is the layer of the atmosphere that we live in.
What is the troposphere?
As you travel up through the stratosphere, the temperature changes in this way.
What is increases?
This is water in the form of a gas.
What is water vapor?
This is the hottest layer of Earth's atmosphere.
What is the thermosphere?