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Upper Atmosphere
Lower Atmosphere
Orographic Effect
Origins and Composition
Interesting Facts
100
Satellites orbit here.
What is the exophere?
100
The lowest layer of Earth`s atmosphere.
What is the troposphere?
100
We are in this class.
What is science?
100
It keeps most of the harmful radiation away from the surface.
What is the ozone layer?
100
There is no weather above this layer.
What is the stratosphere?
200
This is the second-to-last layer of the Earth's atmosphere.
What is the thermosphere?
200
The troposphere contains a lot of ____ particles.
What is dust?
200
Another word for "high land".
What is a mountain?
200
In the beginning, the atmosphere did not have this vital element.
What is oxygen?
200
These occur in the thermosphere when radiation from the Sun interacts with the Earth's magnetic field.
What are auroras?
300
It merges with space, due to its lack of boundaries.
What is the exophere?
300
This continuously moves due to radiation and heat emitted from the surface of the Earth.
What is air?
300
The side that dry air descends and picks up any available moisture from the landscape below.
What is leeward?
300
___________ micro-organisms produced large amounts of oxygen.
What is photosynthetic?
300
About 500,000 cubic kilometres of this falls each year worldwide.
What is rain?
400
Meteor showers and shooting stars are created here.
What is the mesosphere?
400
Radiation from the Sun interacts with air and water vapour to create this.
What is weather?
400
Orographic effect is the ____________ disturbance that is caused by the existence of high land.
What is atmospheric?
400
The atmosphere is mostly made up of this.
What is nitrogen and oxygen?
400
There are __ zeros in a quadrillion.
What is fifteen?
500
This causes the temperature in the thermosphere to be 1500 to 3000° C.
What is radiation from the Sun?
500
The layer between the stratosphere and troposphere.
What is the tropopause?
500
This type of air prevails on the windward side of a mountain range.
What is moist?
500
Name 2 other elements that can be found in trace amounts in the atmosphere.
What is (choose 2) neon OR helium OR methane OR krypton OR xenon OR hydrogen OR ozone?
500
The approximate volume of the entire atmosphere is about ___ billion cubic kilometres.
What is 4.2?