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Layers of Atmosphere
Air, huh, what?
Latin Words
Air Pressure
Hodgepodge
100
Troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, and thermosphere make up this part of earth.
What is the atmosphere?
100
This gas makes up most of the earth's atmosphere.
What is nitrogen?
100
Latin prefix meaning 'heat'.
What is thermo?
100
This is why a ruler is hard to knock off of a desk when covered by a newspaper.
What is air pressure?
100
The first element on the periodic table.
What is hydrogen?
200
This layer is where you might find hot air balloons.
What is the troposphere?
200
This is the second most abundant gas in the air.
What is oxygen?
200
Latin prefix meaning 'middle'.
What is meso?
200
The type of change in air pressure that usually indicates a storm coming.
What is falling air pressure?
200
The three types of heat transfer.
What are conduction, convection, and radiation?
300
Weather occurs here.
What is the troposphere?
300
This gas in the atmosphere allows us to build and repair proteins in our bodies.
What is nitrogen?
300
Latin prefix meaning 'changes' or 'varies'
What is tropo?
300
This is why air pressure does not crush your desk.
What is air pressure is pushing from all directions.
300
Contour lines on a topographic map show this.
What is areas of similar elevation?
400
The thermosphere is made of these two minor layers.
What are the ionosphere and the exosphere?
400
This is water in the form of a gas.
What is water vapor?
400
Latin prefix meaning 'inner' or 'inside'.
What is endo?
400
This is the mass of a substance compared to that substance's volume.
What is density?
400
The difference between the highest and lowest elevation in a particular region.
What is relief?
500
This layer is where meteors burn up.
What is the mesosphere?
500
This gas in our atmosphere has one carbon atom and two oxygen atoms in each molecule.
What is carbon dioxide?
500
Latin prefix meaning 'outer' or 'outside'
What is exo?
500
This is the instrument used to measure changes in air pressure.
What is barometer?
500
Earth's oceans, lakes, rivers, and ice form this sphere.
What is the hydrosphere?