Atmosphere Vocab Crossword Puzzle

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• atmosphere: the envelope of gases surrounding the earth or another planet
• troposphere: the lowest region of the atmosphere, extending from the earth's surface
• stratosphere: the layer above the earth's atmosphere above the troposphere, 32 miles above the earth's surface
• mesosphere: the region of the earth's atmosphere above the stratosphere and below the thermosphere
• thermosphere: the layer of the earth's surface above the mesosphere and below the exosphere
• exosphere: the outermost region of a planet's atmosphere
• ozone: a layer in the earth's stratosphere containing a high concentration of ozone, which absorbs most of the ultraviolet radiation reaching the earth from the sun
• greenhouse effect: the trapping of the sun's warmth in a planet's lower atmosphere, due to the greater transparency of the atmosphere to visible radiation
• weather: the state of the atmosphere at a place and time as regards heat. dryness, sunshine, wind, rain, etc.
• climate: the weather conditions prevailing in an area in general/over a long period of time
• convection cell: a self-contained convective zone in a fluid in which upward motion of warmer fluid in the center is balanced by downward motion of a cooler fluid.