Layers of the Atmosphere
This layer of the atmosphere is closest to the Earth.
What is the troposphere?
What are nitrogen, oxygen, and argon?
Weather occurs in this layer of the atmosphere.
What is the troposphere?
This is the natural warming of Earth's surface and lower atmosphere.
What is the greenhouse effect?
When a hemisphere is tilted towards the sun, it is __________.
What is summer?
This layer of the atmosphere contains the ozone layer
What is the stratosphere?
This is a tool that measures air pressure.
What is a barometer?
This is located between the troposphere and stratosphere.
What is the tropopause?
This is the world's largest carbon sink.
What is the ocean?
When a hemisphere is tilted away from the sun, it is __________.
What is winter?
This is the outer edge of our atmosphere.
What is the exosphere?
This causes air to be pulled down towards Earth.
What is gravity?
This is located between the stratosphere and mesosphere.
What is the stratopause?
This is what happens if there are too many greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
Would Earth be too hot?
This is why we have different seasons on Earth.
Is it because of the tilt of Earth's axis?
This layer of the atmosphere is where most meteors burn up.
What is the mesosphere?
This is a measure of force that acts over a certain area.
What is pressure?
In the thermosphere, the air is very, very __________.
What is thin?
These are the three major greenhouse gases in our atmosphere.
What are carbon dioxide, water vapor, and methane?
This is created by unequal heating on Earth.
What is wind?
This layer of the atmosphere is where the Aurora Borealis is found.
What is the thermosphere?
This is the ozone layer's primary function.
What is to protect Earth's surface from dangerous UV radiation?
This layer of the atmosphere is above the mesopause.
What is the thermosphere?
These are factors that deduct from the amount of free carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
What are carbon sinks?
These are the three main circulation patterns on Earth.
What are Hadley cells, Ferrel cells, and Polar cells?