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100
This term describes is the distance above sea level.
What is altitude?
100
This is the outer-most later of the atmosphere.
what is the thermosphere?
100
There inner-most later of the atmosphere is known as this.
What is the troposphere?
100
This layer protects Earth's surface from meteroids.
What is the mesosphere?
100
This layers protects the Earth from harmful ultra-violet rays that can kill plants and animals and cause skin cancer.
What is the stratosphere?
200
The result of the weight of a column of air pushing down on an area; measure by an instrument called a barometer.
What is air pressure?
200
This instrument is useful in measuring air pressure.
What is a barometer?
200
Most of the Earth's weather occurs in this layer of our atmosphere.
What is the troposphere?
200
Small space rocks or other debris that burn up in the Earth's atmosphere all called this.
What are meteoroids?
200
This layer of the atmosphere is divded up into two smaller laters- the ionosphere and the exosphere.
What is the thermosphere?
300
*Review*
What is the name of the sphere that includes soil, minerals, rocks (solid and liquid), the tectonic plates and the laters of the earth?
What is the geosphere?
300
*Review*
What is the name of the Earth spere that includes rivers, oceans, rain, glaciers, and ground water?
What is the hydrosphere?
300
What is the name of the Earth sphere that includes animals, plants, protists and all other living things?
What is the biosphere?
300
What are the two layers that are included in the thermosphere?
What are the ionosphere and the exosphere.
300
These are some of the gases that make up the Earth's atmosphere.
What are oxygen, nitrogen, carbon dioxide, water vapor and other gases.
*You should name at least two of these for the points to be awarded. *
400
True of false. The Earth's atmosphere protects the planet from Solar radiation.
What is true
400
This gas forms when lightning interacts with oxygen in the air and creates a molecule of three oxygen atom.
What is ozone?
400
*Review* DOUBLE POINTS
Name the order of the planets, starting with the inner planets.
What are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto (a microplanet)
400
*Review*
These are the three states are water.
What are liquid water, solid (ice), and gaseous (water vapor)
400
Bonus (+100 points)
What is the chemical formula for water?
500
This layer begins at 50 km and ends around 80 km. It rotects Earth’s surface from being hit by most meteoroids, which burn up from friction with the atmosphere.
What is the mesosphere.
500
This layer is directly above troposphere and extends to about 50 km. It c ontains the ozone layer, which protects Earth from ultraviolet (UV) rays that can kill plants, animals and cause skin cancer in humans.
What is the stratosphere?
500
This is the lower layer of the thermosphere which begins at80 km and extends to about 500 km. It contains ions, or charged particles that allow radio waves to bounce off and auroras to occur.
What is the ionosphere?
500
Space shuttles orbit our planet in this layer of the atmosphere.
What is the thermosphere.
500
DOUBLE THE POINTS if you can list the layers of the atmosphere, starting with the layer closest to the Earth's surface and ending with the outer-most layer.
What are the troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere, and exosphere?