Response to Text: Atmosphere

 ATMOSPHERE

Highlight or write the correct answer for each question.

1) What is the atmosphere?

a. Where the water lies b. Where the rocks are

c. Where living things occupy d. Layer of gas around the Earth

2) True or False: At higher elevations, the atmosphere is made up of carbon dioxide and nitrogen.

a. False b. True

3) What is the weight of air known as?

a. Atmospheric pictures b. Atmospheric pressure

c. Atmospheric punctures d. Atmospheric planks

4) Explain in your own words how atmospheric pressure works.

→ The air around you has weight, and it presses against everything it touches. That pressure is called atmospheric pressure

5) What is the importance of the stratosphere?

→ The stratosphere is where you'll find the very important zone layer.

6) Which of the following is the layer that is the furthest from the Earth’s surface?

a. Exosphere b. Thermosphere

c. Mesosphere d. Troposphere

7) Explain in your own words how we get the wind.

→ It is produced by the uneven heating of the earth's surface by the sun. Since the earth's surface

8) What has an influence or effect on weather?

a. Being warmed from the Sun b. Air being pushed around the planet

c. The Land and Sea d. All of the above