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Type:

Thermosphere
Height (above earth’s surface):
400 miles
Temperature:
Variable; can reach 441°F
What do we know?:
Gets so hot because the
thin atmosphere
Type: reabsorbs a lot
Tropophere of radiation
Height (above earth’s surface): that bounces Type:
5 miles at poles; 7 miles at mid-latitudes; 10 miles at Equator back from Stratosphere
Temperature: the lower Height (above earth’s surface):
Drops 3.6 °F every 1,000 ft up; layers 30 miles
minimum reaches -70°F
Temperature:
What do we know?:
Stable at around -58°F
Contains 75% of the total mass of the
What do we know?:
atmosphere. This is where life and
Contains 24% of the total mass of the
almost all of our weather is
atmosphere. At the bottom of
found. The top of the
the stratrosphere is
troposphere is
the ozone
called the
layer
tropopause

Atmospheric
Type:
Mesosphere
Zones
Height (above earth’s surface):
50 miles
Temperature:
Decreases from 20°F at base to -166°F,
before rising again at top
What do we know?:
Meteors burn up in this zone to give “shooting stars;”
together with the thermosphere, this layer
contains many ionized particles, and
they are collectively termed the
ionosphere--this is the layer
off which radio signals
Type:
bounce to allow radio
Exophere: togehter with thermosphere,
telecommunications
makes up “outer atmosphere”
Height (above earth’s surface):
Up to 40,000 miles
Temperature:
Fall to near zero
What do we know?:
The atmospheric density at 6,000 miles is the
same as outer space. Above this height, it is The Earth’s atmosphere is
only the “atmosphere” in the sense that 78.08 percent nitrogen,
the Earth’s gravitational and magnetic 20.95 percent oxygen,
field exert some influence. The 0.93 percent argon,
exosphere contains the and 0.03 percent
magnetosphere, where carbon dioxide.
the aurorae
appear

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