Troposphere
What is the process by which gases hold heat in the atmosphere called?
As altitude increases, temperature _________.
What is increases?
There are many of these natural objects in the mesosphere.
What are meteors?
Shooting stars are the meteors of the mesosphere.
The thermosphere contains this level of temperature, when compared to the other layers of the atmosphere.
What is hottest?
I am this number layer in the atmosphere from the earth upward.
This natural event occurs here.
What is weather?
Most of this atmospheric layer is located here.
What is ozone?
The mesosphere is about ____ miles tall.
These man made objects orbit around the thermosphere.
What are space shuttles?
Why are the thermosphere and exosphere the warmest of the atmospheric layers?
What is because they are the closest to the Sun?
The temperature in this layer ______ as the altitude increases.
What is decreases?
The temperature increases because of ______.
What is ozone?
The mesosphere is this number layer from the Earth outward.
How does the atmosphere benefit Earth?
What is by protecting it from the Sun's harmful rays?
I am this high from the Earth's surface.
This is the layer where airplanes fly.
What is the troposphere?
The height of the stratosphere is about ____ miles high.
What is 30?
What would happen if Earth had no atmosphere?
What is the days would be extremely hot and the nights would be extremely cold?
This light effect exists in the thermosphere.
What is the aurora?
This natural occurance does not happen in the exosphere.
I extend this distance until I reach the next layer.
What is 10km?
The temperature in the stratosphere is typically this many degrees farenheit.
What is 32 degrees?
The coldest part of the atmosphere is in this part of the mesosphere.
What is the upper mesosphere?
Humans have altered the composition of Earth's atmosphere by ______.
What is polluting it with carbon dioxide gas?
The air in the exosphere is not ______ because the air molecules are spread out.
What is dense?