Atmosphere/ vocab review

Earth’s air, which is made up of a thin layer of gases, solids, liquids; forms a protective layer around the planet and is divided into five distinct layers

• Troposphere
• Stratosphere
• Greenhouse Effect
• Atmosphere

Layer of Earth’s atmosphere that is closest to the ground, contains 99% of the water vapor and 75% of the atmospheric gases, and is where clouds and weather occur

• Stratosphere
• Troposphere
• Ionosphere
• Exosphere

the region of the upper atmosphere extending upward from the tropopause to about 30 miles above the earth, characterized by little vertical change in temperature

• Stratosphere
• Troposphere
• Thermosphere
• Exosphere

type of energy that comes to Earth from the Sun, can damage skin and cause cancer, and  mostly absorbed by the ozone layer

• Ultraviolet Radiation
• Greenhouse Effect
• Atmosphere
• Ionosphere

layer of the stratosphere with a high concentration of ozone; absorbs most of the Sun’s harmful ultraviolet radiation

• Atmosphere
• Ultraviolet Radiation
• Ozone Layer
• Stratosphere

layer of electrically charged particles in the thermosphere that absorbs AM radio waves during the day and reflects them back at night

• Thermosphere
• Ionosphere
• Stratosphere
• Greenhouse effect

the region of the upper atmosphere in which temperature increases continuously with altitude, encompassing essentially all of the atmosphere above the mesosphere

• Exosphere
• Mesosphere
• Stratosphere
• Thermosphere

the atmospheric layer lying between the stratosphere and the thermosphere, characterized by a rapid decrease in temperature with height

• mesosphere
• thermosphere
• stratosphere
• exosphere

the highest region of the atmosphere, where the air density is so low that a fast-moving air molecule is more than 50 percent likely to escape from the atmosphere instead of hitting other molecules

• Thermosphere
• Air Pressure
• Atmosphere
• Exosphere

natural heating that occurs when certain gases in Earth’s atmosphere, such as methane CO2  and water vapor, trap heat

• Ultraviolet Radiation
• Greenhouse effect
• Air Pressure
• Mesosphere