Layers of Earth Atmosphere

Define: Ozone Layer

• Greenhouse Gas

• A region within the stratosphere where ozone molecules are concentrated, absorbing and blocking harmful ultraviolet radiation from reaching the Earth's surface

• Stratosphere

• This too hard!

Force exerted by the weight of air molecules pressing down on an area

• Air Pressure

• Motion

• Force

• Gas

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Height above sea level

• Scooby Doo

• Altitude

• Surface

• Atmospheric Pressure

Define: Atmosphere

• Something I can see!

• The protective bubble in which we live

• A mixture of gases that surrounds the Earth and is held in place by gravity

• Protects us from outer space

This is where weather occurs and where we live and breath.

• Troposphere

• The sky!

• Exosphere

• Thermosphere

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Atmosphere trap heat from the Sun, preventing it from escaping back into space and leading to an increase in average global temperatures.

• I have no clue

• 23rd Jump Sheet

• Sulfur Gasses

• Greenhouse Effect

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It is the layer where meteors burn up upon entering Earth's atmosphere.

• The mesosphere.

• The exosphere
• The stratosphere
• The thermosphere

It experiences extremely high temperatures due to the absorption of intense solar radiation.

• School Daze!

• Tropopause

• Exosphere

• Thermosphere

Define: Exosphere

• Green

• Going outside

• The outermost layer of Earth's atmosphere, blending into space gradually with no definite boundary. It contains very few gas molecules and satellites orbit within this region.

• A region of a planet's atmosphere.

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Define: Climate Change

• This is hard!

• As greenhouse gas emissions blanket the Earth, they trap the sun’s heat.

• A long-term change in the average weather patterns that have come to define Earth's local, regional and global climates.

• Climate change refers to long-term shifts in temperature, precipitation patterns, wind patterns, and other aspects of climate caused by human activities such as burning fossil fuels and deforestation

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