Atmosphere

2. an invisible gaseous surrounding the earth
6. the layer of earths atmosphere above the mesosphere
8. the throwing back by a body or surface of light, heat, or sound without absorbing it.
9. the envelope of gasses surrounding the earth or another planet.
10. a layer in the earths stratosphere.
11. an air like fluid substance which expands freely to fill any space available, irrespective of its quantity.

1. the layer of earths atmosphere above the troposphere
3. the outermost region of a planet's atmosphere.
4. a type of vaporization of a liquid that occurs from the surface of a liquid into a gaseous phase that is not saturated with the evaporating substance.
5. stream a narrow, variable band of very strong, predominantly westerly air currents encircling the globe several miles above the earth. There are typically two or three jet streams in each of the northern and southern hemispheres.
6. the lowest layer of the earths atmosphere
7. cycle the cycle of processes by which water circulates between the earth's oceans, atmosphere, and land, involving precipitation as rain and snow, drainage in streams and rivers, and return to the atmosphere by evaporation and transpiration.