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Atmosphere
vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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atmosphere | the gaseous envelope surrounding the earth; the air. |
troposphere | the lowest layer of the atmosphere |
stratosphere | all of the earths atmosphere lying outside the troposphere. |
mesosphere | above the surface of the earth |
ionosphere | the region of the earth's atmosphere between the stratosphere and the exosphere, |
thermosphere | the region of the upper atmosphere in which temperature increases continuously with altitude |
exosphere | the highest region of the atmosphere, where the air density is so low that a fast-moving air |