The Earth is completely surrounded by "a sea of air" known as the atmosphere.
Without the atmosphere life cannot exist on Earth.
The atmosphere contains oxygen, the life sustaining gas.
From the air, plants get carbon dioxide needed in order to live.
The layer of air also protect us from the intense radiation by day and too much loss of heat by night.
There is very little oxygen high up in the atmosphere so this is the reason why hikers experience difficulty in breathing when they climb high mountains.
The most aboundant gas in the air is Nitrogen consists of 78% of the air in the atmosphere.
Oxygen makes up about 21 % of the air
Hydrosphere - water ex. Sea, lake
Atmosphere - gas ex. Troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere and exosphere
Lithosphere - solid ex. Crust, mantle, and core
ITCZ - intertropical convergence zone
Mesosphere - have the coldest temperature of the atmosphere.
Troposphere - most of the weather occurs.
Thermosphere - temperature may reach as 2000 degrees Celsius.
Stratosphere - absorb much of the Sun's harmful radiation.
Stratosphere - contain most of the ozone layer.
Troposphere - closest to Earth surface 10 km
Troposphere - temperature just above the ground
Troposphere - weather occurs
Troposphere - turbulence occurs
Stratosphere - 50 km above earth surface
Stratosphere - jet aircraft can be seen
Troposphere - clouds, mountain, airplane, air balloon.
Stratosphere - radiosonde
Ozone layer - O3
Ozone layer absorbed uv radiation
Mesosphere - between 50 km - 80 km
Mesosphere - meteors of rock fragments
Mesosphere - meteors
Thermosphere - hottest
Thermosphere - 80 km - 110 km
Thermosphere - space shuttles, Aurora borealis and aurora australis
Auroraborealis - northern lights
Aurora australis - southern lights
Exosphere - upper limit of atmosphere
Exosphere - merges into space
Exosphere - satellites
Exosphere - 500km - 1000km
The atmosphere is structured in different layers according mainly to variation in temperature.