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Atmosphere BrainPop

1 . The atmosphere is made of a mixture of gases , mostly ____________________ and ____________________ that wrap around the planet .

2 . Those gases ____________________ us by blocking out dangerous rays from the sun .

3 . The earth's atmosphere has ____________________ layers .
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4 . Gases become ____________________ the higher up you go .

5 . The troposphere is the ____________________ layer . The troposphere is known as the ____________________ layer .

6 . Above the troposphere is the ____________________ , where temperatures ____________________ with altitude .

7 . The stratosphere goes from - 60 C at the bottom and warms to about ____________________ ( 0 C ) at the top . This happens because the stratosphere is heat from above by the sun's ____________________ radiation .

8 . The ____________________ is also found in the stratosphere . Ozone is a ____________________ that absorbs harmful ____________________ rays and protects us from too much solar radiation .

9 . The atmosphere reaches its ____________________ temperature of - 90 C in the ____________________ .

10 . The ____________________ is the ____________________ layer of the atmosphere . The air so ____________________ that not much solar radiation can be absorbed and temperatures climb to almost 2000 C .

11 . The sky is blue because the gases in our atmosphere ____________________ blue light and it appears to be ____________________ .