Layers of the Atmosphere
This layer of the atmosphere burns up meteors as they enter.
What is the mesosphere?
This is found in the stratosphere and is responsible for absorbing the sun's harmful rays.
What is the ozone layer?
The two most abundant gases in the atmosphere
Nitrogen and Oxygen
Hydro
Water
The troposphere is the layer of the atmosphere in which Earth's ________ occurs.
What is Weather
This gas is stored in Earth's atmosphere for living things to breath.
Oxygen
Atmo
Air
The ___________ is the second layer of the atmosphere and contains the ______ _______.
What is the Stratosphere, and it contains the ozone layer.
What does the ozone layer do to the Sun's radiation?
Absorbs it
Bio
Living things
the layer where meteors burn
mesosphere
What gas compound (found in the stratosphere) protects Earth from ultraviolet radiation?
What is ozone?
This is the layer where space shuttles fly.
What is the thermosphere (or exosphere)?
How does the atmosphere maintain the Earth's temperature? (think Greenhouse)
Trap the heat energy of the Sun
earth or land
Geosphere
the layer where Arura phenomena happens
ionosphere
This would happen if you left your international space station while outside the Earth's atmosphere.
Death
The carbon dioxide that we breathe out is thankfully taken in by _______ and converted back to fresh oxygen.
Trees
the layer where the pilots prefer to fly
Stratosphere
Knowing prefixes can help you understand the meaning of a word.
A prefix is at the end or beginning of the word?
Beginning
The thermosphere is divided into two layers. The lower layer is called the _________ and the outer layer is called the _______.
What is the ionosphere and the exosphere?