Atmospheric Layers

The measure of the force with which air molecules push on a surface

• Themosphere
• Ozone
• Altitude
• Air Pressure

The mixture of gases that surrounds the Earth

• Atmosphere
• Green House Effect
• Stratosphere
• Ozone

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

Height of an object above the Earth's Surface

• Ozone
• Altitude
• Thermosphere
• Air Pressure

Gases in the atmosphere that trap thermal energy causing the earth's surface to heat up.

• Ozone
• Exosphere
• Air Pressure
• Green House Effect

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-5

An area in the stratosphere that absorbs solar energy in the form of Ultraviolet radiation.

• Altitude
• Green House Effect
• Ozone
• Troposhere

Atmospheric layer we live in

• Troposhere
• Stratosphere
• Thermosphere
• Ozone

Contains the ozone layer

• Stratosphere
• Troposphere
• Altitude
• Mesosphere

Middle layer, were meteors burn up

• Stratosphere
• Mesosphere
• Thermosphere
• Green House Effect

Hottest layer of the atmosphere

• Exosphere
• Mesophere
• Atomosphere
• Thermosphere

Merges with space, area of the Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights)

• Exosphere
• Troposphere
• Thermosphere
• Air Pressure