3.In which layer is temperature increasing with increasing altitude?
4.In which layer is temperature decreasing with increasing altitude?
5.What Information about Earth's atmosphere can you derive from the graph?
Answer
1.Troposphere, Stratosphere, Mesosphere, Thermosphere, and Exosphere.
2.Troposphere it is the lowest layer of the Earth's atmosphere located 10km above the surface. In Stratosphere the layer is located just above the Troposphere with a height of 30km from the surface, the infamous ozone layer is found within the stratosphere. Ozone molecules in this layer absorb high-energy ultraviolet (UV) light from the Sun, converting the UV energy into heat. Mesosphere on the other hand is the fourth layer in the atmosphere, it extends from about 50 to 85 km (31 to 53 miles) above our planet and the temperature decreases with height throughout the mesosphere. The thermosphere is the layer in the Earth's atmosphere directly above the mesosphere and below the exosphere. Within this layer of the atmosphere, ultraviolet radiation causes photoionization ion of molecules, creating ions. And last is the exosphere, exosphere is the outermost layer of the atmosphere starting at altitude of 500km and goes out at 10,000km , Within this region particles of atmosphere can travel for hundreds of kilometers in a ballistic trajectory before bumping into any other particles of the atmosphere.
4. Mesosphere
5.Informations from the graph includes the layer's altitude.
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Questions
1. What are the five layers of the atmosphere?
2. Describe the graph for each layer.
3. In which layer is temperature increasing with increasing altitude?
4. In which layer is temperature decreasing with increasing altitude?
5. What Information about Earth's atmosphere can you derive from the graph?
Answer
1. Troposphere, Stratosphere, Mesosphere, Thermosphere, and Exosphere.
2. Troposphere it is the lowest layer of the Earth's atmosphere located 10km above the surface. In Stratosphere the layer is located just above the Troposphere with a height of 30km from the surface, the infamous ozone layer is found within the stratosphere. Ozone molecules in this layer absorb high-energy ultraviolet (UV) light from the Sun, converting the UV energy into heat. Mesosphere on the other hand is the fourth layer in the atmosphere, it extends from about 50 to 85 km (31 to 53 miles) above our planet and the temperature decreases with height throughout the mesosphere. The thermosphere is the layer in the Earth's atmosphere directly above the mesosphere and below the exosphere. Within this layer of the atmosphere, ultraviolet radiation causes photoionization ion of molecules, creating ions. And last is the exosphere, exosphere is the outermost layer of the atmosphere starting at altitude of 500km and goes out at 10,000km , Within this region particles of atmosphere can travel for hundreds of kilometers in a ballistic trajectory before bumping into any other particles of the atmosphere.
4. Mesosphere
5. Informations from the graph includes the layer's altitude.
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