The Atmosphere Vocabulary

Which is the outer part of the thermosphere that extends outward into space?

• Exosphere

• Ionosphere

• Mesosphere

• Stratosphere

What is a colorful, glowing display in the sky caused when particles form the sun strike oxygen and nitrogen atoms in the ionosphere. (Hint: Also called the Northern Lights)

• Aurora Borealis

• Ozone

• Solar Eclipse

• Lunar Eclipse

A mixture of gases that surrounds a planet or moon

• atmosphere

• lithosphere

• geosphere

• hydrosphere

A form of oxygen that has three oxygen atoms in each molecule instead of the usual two.

• ozone

• hydrogen

• diamotic

• triple oxygen

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The day-to-day conditions of the atmosphere including temperture, precipitation, and other factors.

• weather

• climate

• storms

• biotic

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The average weather conditions in an area over a long period of time.

• climate

• weather

• combustion

• forecast

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Gases such as carbon dioxide, methane, mitrous oxide, water vapor, and ozone in the atmosphere which are involved in the greenhouse effect

• greenhouse gases

• atmosphere

• Noble gases

• metalloids

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78% of the Earth's atmosphere is ___________ and 21% of the Earth's atmosphere is _____________.

• Oxygen, Nitrogen

• Nitrogen, Oxygen

• Nitrogen, Carbon Dioxide

• Oxygen, Carbon Dioxide

In what layer of the atmosphere do all weather events occur?

• Stratosphere

• Exosphere

• Mesosphere

• Troposphere

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In the troposphere, the temperature _____ as altitude increases.

• Increases

• Decreases

• Stays the same

• Goes up and down